[Caipirabob]

If human skin itself contains the receptors required for the Ebola virus to easily bind to a host, aren’t carriers always contagious? Human skin is not a barrier, the virus passes right through it. Both directions... Once a significant population of the virus comes into contact with the host, that’s pretty much it. That is the horrific aspect of the virus here where airborne or not, on contact transmission is almost a given.

[Caipirabob]

#154 - ah - found this:

"You can't touch anyone," says Purfield, 37. ~ Anne Purfield and Michelle Dynes are epidemiologists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. They spent the past several weeks responding to the Ebola epidemic in the Kenema district of Sierra Leone, and recently returned to Atlanta.

So yeah, contact = transmission here.