[the invisib1e hand]

pestilence alert.

is that stuff contagious?

[tet68]

Contagious???

You might say that.

This could be a bad beginning.

[Drew68]

is that stuff contagious?

Very.

This could be bad.

[cripplecreek]

Very contagious and not well understood.

In the case of ebola, the kill rate is sometimes in the 90% range which helps to prevent it's spread because it kills entire villages in Africa before it spreads much.

[calex59]

Ebola is not air borne(so far) but it is deadly contagious if you come in contact with the blood or vomit of the victim.

[Teacher317]

Read "The Hot Zone", by Richard Preston. It's a long book, but reads like a newspaper article. I finished it in two days of easy reading.

Not many books will give you a nightmare or two... this one will. Well worth reading!!!

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Through bodily fluids. No airborne transmission.

Also extremely rare thankfully.

A couple of odd things in this story.

The results of a post mortem are awaited. Yet it is announced that she did died of Ebola rather then "may have died".

And she is identified in the headline as an African and in the story as a Briton who worked in the Embassy in Lesotho.

Lastly she was stationed in Lesotho. That is half a continent away from Unganda and the Congo where Ebola outbreaks happen.

I have never heard of a case in Lesotho. It may have happened but I have never heard of it.