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To: Black Agnes

Those are secretions, but they are not derived from blood. The cells that secrete those liquids are not cells that the Ebola virus attacks. So, unless the secretions are bloody, they are not infectious.

I read one report where viral RNA was detected in bloody saliva (of one patient), but it was not infectious. The researchers thought that perhaps immune molecules in the saliva destroyed the virus.


2,121 posted on 09/17/2014 5:31:43 PM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: exDemMom

In spite of the fact that one of the major symptoms is ‘bloody nose’.


2,122 posted on 09/17/2014 5:34:44 PM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: exDemMom

>>> So, unless the secretions are bloody, they are not infectious.

Wrong, wrong, wrong. See “Assessment of the Risk of Ebola Virus Transmission from Bodily Fluids and Fomites” in the Journal of Infectious diseases at

http://jid.oxfordjournals.org/content/196/Supplement_2/S142.full

Table 1, in which various fluids of ebola patients were tested:

breast milk 100% positive
saliva 67% positive
stool (acute) 50%
tears 100%
nasal blood 100%
semen 50%
...

Admittedly, the pool size of samples was very small (sometimes only 1 or 2 samples taken), but the evidence is clear...


2,125 posted on 09/17/2014 6:04:20 PM PDT by XEHRpa
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