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To: Gen.Blather

just back from the CDC site. Ebola’s natural reservoir is believed to be bats, with African fruit bats the likely culprit. They are the carriers. contact with the bats and/or their feces/bites is the presumed vector to a human ‘index’.

No identified vector beyond contact and contamination.

SO ... not a typical ‘outbreak’ sort of virus.


24 posted on 06/20/2014 8:41:52 AM PDT by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitur: non vehere est inermus)
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To: Blueflag

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1996-04-16/news/9604160114_1_monkey-facility-bites-or-scratches-ebola

Not so fast there with it only being in African fruit bats. Some research monkeys in Texas had it and there was a big scare. I couldn’t find a link (the posted link is, I think, of the same facility but earlier timeframe) but iirc there were some that got loose about 8 years ago and there was a panic to get them back and play the story down.


31 posted on 06/20/2014 9:05:13 AM PDT by bgill
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To: Blueflag

So the fruit bat is the vector, but it is spread from human to human through bodily fluids?


53 posted on 06/22/2014 5:40:36 AM PDT by Bigg Red (31 May 2014: Obamugabe officially declares the USA a vanquished subject of the Global Caliphate.)
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