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To: CharlesWayneCT

Ebola will not go airborne? Someone needs to tell the Canuks:

http://healthmap.org/site/diseasedaily/article/pigs-monkeys-ebola-goes-airborne-112112


33 posted on 08/03/2014 6:40:30 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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To: mad_as_he$$
From the article you linked:
What do these findings mean? First and foremost, Ebola is not suddenly an airborne disease. As expert commentators at ProMED stated, the experiments “demonstrate the susceptibility of pigs to Zaire Ebolavirus and that the virus from infected pigs can be transmitted to macaques under experimental conditions… they fall short of establishing that this is a normal route of transmission in the natural environment.” Furthermore, because human Ebola outbreaks have historically been locally contained, it is unlikely that Ebola can spread between humans via airborne transmission.
Of course, the fear is a new virulent strain of Ebola that could be transmitted airborne or by other means.
35 posted on 08/03/2014 7:18:26 AM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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