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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Reston was airborne, but didn’t infect humans.

Only a question of time.

5 posted on 11/16/2012 5:27:48 PM PST by Hardraade (http://junipersec.wordpress.com (I will fear no muslim))

Reston was airborne, but didn’t infect humans.

Ah, you scooped me! If Ebola Reston were capable of infecting humans, there would have been a HUGE problem. It only killed monkeys.

8 posted on 11/16/2012 5:39:57 PM PST by exDemMom (Now that I've finally accepted that I'm living a bad hair life, I'm more at peace with the world.)

To: Hardraade; exDemMom

Reston was airborne, but didn’t infect humans.

It does infect humans (people exposed seroconverted), but remains asymptomatic. Or at least it has so far. Perhaps a little mutation or a close relative floating around somewhere in the forest in the Philippines might show up and ruin the party. Or possibly from Indonesia (detected there also). Or from Italy (flew in with some monkeys). Oh, and did I mention that it's been detected in pigs too, and that it appears to have been transmitted from an infected pig to a worker on a farm?

What's worse than an airborne filovirus? One that's not picky about hosts and carriers and already has 4 stamps on its passport...

(sleep tight!)

19 posted on 11/19/2012 1:27:27 PM PST by verum ago (Some people must truly be in love, for only love can be so blind.)

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