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To: Rockitz

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2786297/Experts-fear-Ebola-virus-COULD-spread-air-not-just-contact-bodily-fluids.html

“....Virus expert Charles L. Bailey, who in 1989 helped the American government tackle an outbreak of Ebola among rhesus monkeys being used for research, told the LA Times: ‘We know for a fact that the virus occurs in sputum and no one has ever done a study [disproving that] coughing or sneezing is a viable means of transmitting.....”

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-ebola-questions-20141007-story.html#page=1

“.....Dr. C.J. Peters, who battled a 1989 outbreak of the virus among research monkeys housed in Virginia and who later led the CDC’s most far-reaching study of Ebola’s transmissibility in humans, said he would not rule out the possibility that it spreads through the air in tight quarters.

“We just don’t have the data to exclude it,” said Peters, who continues to research viral diseases at the University of Texas in Galveston........”


4 posted on 10/09/2014 8:35:41 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

As I stated on another thread yesterday. “I’m a bit of an aerosol expert and a particle .08 microns in diameter can stay aloft for a very long time. Even if it is initially in a fluid state, any sneeze, [or cough] or projectile vomit will immediately make particulate of that size airborne indefinitely.”


6 posted on 10/09/2014 9:08:37 AM PDT by Rockitz (This is NOT rocket science - Follow the money and you'll find the truth.)
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