High levels of an organism which only takes 1-10 viral particles to infect someone--on their skin So, what happens earlier on when they start to run a fever and sweat? Maybe not as high a viral load, but something, certainly--and with an ID50 of 1-10 viral particles, how much does it take?
At the peak of illness, an Ebola patient can have 10 billion viral particles in one-fifth of a teaspoon of blood.
As I have said before, we know how much will infect someone, (the obvious routes of transmission) but what we really don't know is how little it takes to get infected.
I reckon we're going to find out...
Smokin Joe wrote:
The researchers at Emory tested patients and found high levels of the virus in their body fluids and even on their skin.
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Hence the “Don’t touch” policy in the Ebola Centers.
When I first read this, I cried.