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To: little jeremiah

The Reston variety of ebola is airborne, fortunately it doesn’t cause hemorrhagic fever in humans.


21 posted on 04/20/2014 2:34:34 PM PDT by null and void (...if you are too sure of your place in heaven you might be too arrogant to actually get there.)
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To: null and void

Aha, I should have known you would know a lot more than I do. So is this Reston variety that people are getting? And is Reston Ebola also have a high fatality rate? I’m going to have to look up Reston Ebola now.


36 posted on 04/20/2014 3:04:26 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: null and void

So this can’t be Reston Ebola, then.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reston_virus

I just read the whole page, this is the relevant part (just for others since you already know about it):

-——Despite its status as a level-4 organism, Reston virus is non-pathogenic to humans,


38 posted on 04/20/2014 3:10:19 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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