Absolutely not...
Lungs are a different type of tissue. It is susceptible to bacterial infection, because of the warm moist environment, but not to Ebola, a virus.
In Ebola reston, autopsy’s did show lung involvement in monkeys. But they are not entirely sure why...In pigs, it does not seem to attack the lungs, and just is carried in the blood, so there is a lot of debate over it.
It’s possible I suppose that it was not involvement at all and just some inhaled blood from the mouth or throat. But in any case, reston is harmless to us.
Ebola does not dissolve the lungs..patients die from blood and fluid loss, mostly as a result of heavy bleeding from the GI tract combined with high fevers.. standard medical intervention can help some of them survive. And now we anti virals that show promise.
For this reason and many others, I contend that Ebola could never become a pandemic and will remain confined to the African region until such time as we find a way to eliminate it or control it there.
There are four or five versions of Ebola. Restin is not found in humans.
Coughing up the lining of the lungs and esophagus were listed as “symptoms” in Preston’s book. That is what I am working from.
The cells of all tissues, except bone and connective tissue are attacked, at least according to that source.
But I don’t really need to get into the weeds on this as my sources are pretty much limited to that at the moment.
We can both agree that once infected, the discussion of what exactly sloughs off is moot. Ha ha.