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Re: 101st Airborne Won’t Get Full Protective Hazmat Suits for Ebola Mission in West A
You simply dont understand the terminology. For ebola to be transmitted through the air it has to be transported on an infected body fluid. This means basically when someone coughs or sneezes or spits or has diarrhea or what ever, ebola can be transmitted if it is on/in that body fluid and that body fluid comes in contact with a mucous membrane or open skin, before the infective agent dies. Ebola is not floating aroun the room waiting for some unsuspecting person to walk by and inhale it. This is Micro 101 and the right is really eberasssing itself with this stuff. Ebola is just not airborne and that is a scienctific fact. So calm down.
You simply dont understand the terminology. For ebola to be transmitted through the air it has to be transported on an infected body fluid. This means basically when someone coughs or sneezes or spits or has diarrhea or what ever, ebola can be transmitted if it is on/in that body fluid and that body fluid comes in contact with a mucous membrane or open skin, before the infective agent dies. Ebola is not floating aroun the room waiting for some unsuspecting person to walk by and inhale it. This is Micro 101 and the right is really eberasssing itself with this stuff. Ebola is just not airborne and that is a scienctific fact. So calm down.
Yeah I do.....just like a couple of disease experts and some doctors do.
Direct injection and exposure via a skin break or mucous membranes are the most efficient ways for Ebola to transmit. It may be that inhalation is a less efficient route of transmission for Ebola and other filoviruses, as lung involvement has not been reported in all non-human primate studies of Ebola aerosol infectivity.27 However, the respiratory and gastrointestinal systems are not complete barriers to Ebola virus. Experimental studies have demonstrated that it is possible to infect non-human primates and other mammals with filovirus aerosols.25-27.....snip~
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