In pigs!! Repeat and try to understand....In pigs...
Also in monkeys..
Ebola Zaire does not act the same way in animals as it does in humans. It mutates. Animals immune systems are different. Some animals recover, some die...But the mutation is not dangerous to humans.
Further work needs to be done on this, but it is quite clear to me that the virus is a complicated nasty little bugger. It has several proteins that we have apparently identified. It needs much more study.
But going with what we know to be true. Now today...
. The Zaire strain in humans is not airborne. It is not airborne because it does not affect the respiratory system in humans.
The chances of a airborne infection are very, very low. Not zero...nobody will ever say that, but very low. that is how the flu is spread, and if that were the case, we would be seeing ebola everywhere.
maybe you all are unfamiliar on how humans contracted Ebola, influenza and most other contagious virus types.
They originated in pigs, monkeys, bats and birds AND MUTATED TO BE INFECTIOUS TO HUMANS.
IT REASSORTED ITS GENE POOL IN ANIMALS TO BE INFECTIVE TO HUMANS.
you guys need to read about SARS, Coronavirus, H1N1, H5N1, and marburg and Ebola they all cam from pigs, BUT THEY DIDN’T STAY THERE
“But the mutation is not dangerous to humans”
in fact, it is precisely the virus genetic mutation (or more precisely re-assortment) in animals which allow its transmission to humans.
From SARS coronavirus to novel animal and human coronaviruses
Kelvin K. W. To,1,2 Ivan F. N. Hung,1,3 Jasper F. W. Chan,1,2 and Kwok-Yung Yuencorresponding author1,2
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3747523/
In 2003, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV) caused one of the most devastating epidemics known to the developed world. There were two important lessons from this epidemic. Firstly, coronaviruses, in addition to influenza viruses, can cause severe and rapidly spreading human infections. Secondly, bats can serve as the origin and natural animal reservoir of deadly human viruses. Since then, researchers around the world, especially those in Asia where SARS-CoV was first identified, have turned their focus to find novel coronaviruses infecting humans, bats, and other animals. Two human coronaviruses, HCoV-HKU1 and HCoV-NL63, were identified shortly after the SARS-CoV epidemic as common causes of human respiratory tract infections. In 2012, a novel human coronavirus, now called Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV), has emerged in the Middle East to cause fatal human infections in three continents.