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To: Smokin' Joe

Flies.

Could ebola be spread by flies that land on corpses or on bodily fluids from ebola victims, which flies then land on healthy humans?

Maybe that is how those healthcare workers get infected despite wearing protective gear when treating the sick.


3,630 posted on 10/10/2014 11:25:38 PM PDT by Age of Reason
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To: Age of Reason
Could ebola be spread by flies that land on corpses or on bodily fluids from ebola victims, which flies then land on healthy humans?

I have been wondering the same.

A quirk I have noted of many of the Africans I have known is that they don't seem to notice flies landing on their skin.

Could the flies become winged fomites by landing in the contaminated fluids (feces seem to attract them, for instance) and carry the disease to a victim? Seems entirely possible to me, although infection (barring transdermal infection) might depend on the virus being further transported into a wound or to a mucous membrane, whether by sweat or some action of the victim.

3,631 posted on 10/11/2014 12:17:55 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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