Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

To: exDemMom

Is snot not a secretion?

What about saliva?

I don’t know many people who sneeze without spraying out of their mouths. It’s where the ‘achoo’ sound comes from.

I can sneeze w/o opening my mouth but it hurts like hell.


2,119 posted on 09/17/2014 5:16:51 PM PDT by Black Agnes
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2118 | View Replies ]


To: Black Agnes

Those are secretions, but they are not derived from blood. The cells that secrete those liquids are not cells that the Ebola virus attacks. So, unless the secretions are bloody, they are not infectious.

I read one report where viral RNA was detected in bloody saliva (of one patient), but it was not infectious. The researchers thought that perhaps immune molecules in the saliva destroyed the virus.


2,121 posted on 09/17/2014 5:31:43 PM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2119 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson