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To: Pox

Read the literature. Scientists have determined that it can be spread from monkeys to pigs through the air. They have not yet determined if it can pass in the same way to humans.


83 posted on 08/05/2014 8:20:23 PM PDT by Hootowl
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To: Hootowl

I have read the literature! Prove to me that this strain is airborne!

Look at the numbers and use reason, not emotion!


84 posted on 08/05/2014 8:25:02 PM PDT by Pox (Good Night. I expect more respect tomorrow.)
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To: Hootowl
The human strains of Ebola do not affect the upper respiratory system in a human.

The Animal strain, a one time event in the US in Reston Va, did, but the virus disappeared and only exists in test tubes right now. But it was absolutely harmless to the human immune system. Even contracted from infected blood via a cut in the skin, the virus disappeared in the human.

It's so called airborne characteristics are a subject much debated. In my view, since this particular strain did in fact affect the respiratory system, this indicates that it can be contracted through the breathing in of aerosol droplets from a sneeze or cough from a infected animal near enough or perhaps aided by a fan or AC system blower.

But it can't travel for any long distance unaided. aerosol droplets are considered contact with bodily fluids. Different from the hantavirus that can be transmitted through dust in the air as a result of disturbing a nest of a infected rodent. That can't happen with Ebola as when dried it is dead. It has to have the right environment to live very long outside the body. Humidity, nutrients..etc..

But let's get back to the point here.. All that was in regard to a animal, specifically a type of monkey, the Reston strain that is not the point of discussion here.

The known human strains are not reported to attack the respiratory system. they attack joints, and connective tissues, smooth muscles in the gut and perhaps the throat as occasionally their is a complaint of a sore throat but not the lungs..

These strains are also not known to spread until the patient is in end stage, unable to travel and obviously compromised. So sitting on airplane with someone not in end stage but infected, the incidence of contact with his her bodily fluids would be difficult and the chance low. Not zero, but low.

OK....now you can return to your utterly wasted efforts to have a useless panic attack.

96 posted on 08/05/2014 9:02:46 PM PDT by Cold Heat (Have you reached your breaking point yet? If not now....then when?)
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