We are told that the only way to spread Ebola is with contact with bodily fluids. If that is the case, how can is spread so rapidly? Is there something our government is not telling us???
Droplets containing the virus from bodily fluids that land on any surface can carry the live virus for thirty days.
You step on some vomit that was not cleaned up properly or touch a door knob that an infected person touched then touch your eyes or nose and 21 days later you are down for the count. This is extremely contagious. It may not have mutated to “airborne” transmission yet but droplet transmission is still bad when the death percentage is so high.
Read how quickly viruses can spread in a western civilization environment, the common office space.
60% of office staff acquired test virus from a single fomite source within two hours. How’s that for speed?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3202070/posts
Follow the short version link to the MailOnline article
“Infections can spread from an office door handle to half the workforce in just two hours, new research has found.
Using tracer viruses, a study found as much as 60 per cent of workers in the building carried the bug planted after 120 minutes....”
“Study found between 40 and 60 per cent of office contaminated in two hours
Pushing buttons in lifts and touching phones spread infection quickest
Disinfectant wipes and regularly washing hands is best way to kill germs
We Americans are conditioned to avoid physical contact with others, even in crowds. That is not true of other cultures. I noticed that in Disneyworld over the summer--as packed as it was, every American was surrounded by a "no-touch" zone, but the foreigners seemed not to care if they bumped into people.
The Ebola virus is still not transmissible except through direct contact with infected patients or bodily fluids. Human behavior is driving the transmission.