It’s not airborne. Now, actually, she’s admitting that she did touch her face when taking off her suit. There’s supposed to be someone else watching when they remove their suits, but I think she was alone at the time, from what they’ve said.
It also turns out that the sequence of events and hospital visits is different from the first account (given by her husband). She’s apparently doing well and is able to be interviewed now (at least by the doctors). All of the other people recently put in isolation have tested negative.
BTW, she received a serum made from the blood of a patient who had recovered from it, a missionary nun in Africa.
I wonder if our ISIS buddies are bottling this up in test tubes so they can spread it around where they see fit? With so many infections around Africa, access to a single body is all that is needed.
"Can Ebola spread by coughing? By sneezing?
Unlike respiratory illnesses like measles or chickenpox, which can be transmitted by virus particles that remain suspended in the air after an infected person coughs or sneezes, Ebola is transmitted by direct contact with body fluids of a person who has symptoms of Ebola disease. Although coughing and sneezing are not common symptoms of Ebola, if a symptomatic patient with Ebola coughs or sneezes on someone, and saliva or mucus come into contact with that person’s eyes, nose or mouth, these fluids may transmit the disease."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3211774/posts
I’ll believe she said that when it comes out of her own mouth. She told a reporter earlier, in an article today, that she was careful about PPE and protecting herself. It also sounds like she is very sick. Suddenly she remembers a possible incident? Call me skeptical.
The hospital is doing everything it can to point to somebody else, when the HCWs are wearing Level 2 PPE for a Level 4 pathogen.
I hope they keep the other patients in isolation until more tests come back negative. Many people have tested negative at first, only to be positive 72 hours later. Dr. Brantly was such a case.
link to article— http://www.elmundo.es/madrid/2014/10/08/54346601e2704e35598b4571.html