08-05-2014, 02:01 PM
N-OS X-tasy! wrote:
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Alot of conflicting info about how ebola is spread.
From CNN, "This is not an airborne transmission," said Dr. Marty Cetron, director of CDC's Division of Global Migration and Quarantine. "There needs to be direct contact frequently with body fluids or blood."
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And from the very same article, "The CDC advises that when flight crew members encounter a passenger with symptoms that they suspect could be Ebola, such as fever and bleeding, that they keep the sick person away from other passengers. They've been instructed to wear disposable gloves and to provide the sickened person with a surgical mask to prevent fluids from spreading through talking, sneezing or coughing."
Airborne transmission of Ebola has been observed in the laboratory, but to date an occurance in the wild has never been documented. However, as a virus Ebola is subject to mutations that could change that behavior. Our knowledge of such a change would lag behind the change itself; thus, a recommendation such as the one above, while probably unnecessary, is eminently sensible.
Do you have a cite for this? Reston ebolavirus (REBV) has exhibited airborne transmission, but is non-pathogenic in humans. Zaire ebolavirus (EBV) is not airborne transmissible, so far as i know.