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To: Sean_Anthony

Sadly misinformed.

On the when:

A group of German medical doctors in a peer-reviewed medical journal article published by Oxford University Press have challenged a key assumption regarding the Ebola virus repeatedly asserted by Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.

The researchers found that a patient showing no symptoms of the disease can still transmit a virus like Ebola by air if droplets containing the virus are transmitted to another person by a sneeze or cough.

On the how do you contract it:

Leaving off sneezing and coughing.

It does not require broken skin in the sense they are trying to project. Most skin meets the definition of broken.


8 posted on 10/16/2014 10:05:08 AM PDT by Ingtar (The NSA - "We're the only part of government who actually listens to the people.")
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To: Ingtar

“It does not require broken skin in the sense they are trying to project. Most skin meets the definition of broken.”

Somebody here pointed out that many health care workers have ‘broken skin’. All the hand washing (often with alcohol) and glove wearing can dry out the skin and cause it to crack.

I work on automobiles a lot, and occasionally my skin will start to burn...the grease and grime having entered a small scrap in my skin, that I had not even noticed before.

And as I type, I have quite a razor burn from shaving this morning...broken skin.


18 posted on 10/16/2014 10:29:14 AM PDT by lacrew
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