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To: ryan71
In all seriousness, dogs might be the most dangerous carriers. They lick everything in sight, they don’t show symptoms and ebola does not kill them.

In all seriousness, there is not one single instance documented of a person being infected with ebola by a dog.

12 posted on 10/07/2014 12:41:26 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: RegulatorCountry

What do facts have to do with anything?


18 posted on 10/07/2014 1:01:57 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The man who damns money obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it earned it." --Ayn Rand)
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To: RegulatorCountry

They are known in Africa to be asymptomatic carriers of the virus.


23 posted on 10/07/2014 1:19:07 PM PDT by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connaît les siens")
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To: RegulatorCountry

Well, RegulatoryCountry, since this dog is in a family home, we’ll know with some degree of certainty whether or not Ebola can be passed from dogs to humans within 21 days.

I for one would not take the chance. These people appear to have volunteered to do so.


28 posted on 10/07/2014 1:26:27 PM PDT by piytar (So....you are saying that Hilllary (and Obama) do not know what the meaning of the word "IS" IS?)
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To: RegulatorCountry

Transfer from a dog bite is technically possible, if the canine saliva harbors viable virons. It may not, as dogs are asymptomatic and the expression through various bodily fluids generally happens after symptoms appear in humans. Not going to speculate on human consumption of dog meat in Africa. Infected dog blood, which might be touched if a person tended to an injured or dead dog, would be infectious. Feces, etc., probably not in an asymptomatic dog.


36 posted on 10/07/2014 1:38:16 PM PDT by steve86 (Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc OÂ’Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
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