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To: Scooter100
It is not airborne:
Transmission

Ebola is introduced into the human population through close contact with the blood, secretions, organs or other bodily fluids of infected animals. In Africa, infection has been documented through the handling of infected chimpanzees, gorillas, fruit bats, monkeys, forest antelope and porcupines found ill or dead or in the rainforest.

Ebola then spreads in the community through human-to-human transmission, with infection resulting from direct contact (through broken skin or mucous membranes) with the blood, secretions, organs or other bodily fluids of infected people, and indirect contact with environments contaminated with such fluids. Burial ceremonies in which mourners have direct contact with the body of the deceased person can also play a role in the transmission of Ebola. Men who have recovered from the disease can still transmit the virus through their semen for up to 7 weeks after recovery from illness.
WHO – Ebola virus disease fact sheet


6 posted on 10/02/2014 8:21:49 AM PDT by Heartlander (Prediction: Increasingly, logic will be seen as a covert form of theism. - Denyse OÂ’Leary)
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To: Heartlander
So in the last two weeks, the govt of Canada did a 180 on airborne Ebola? On what data?

Study the two Canada Health versions for yourself....

Wayback Machine:

https://web.archive.org/web/20140807031435/http://phac-aspc.gc.ca/lab-bio/res/psds-ftss/ebola-eng.php

Govt Canada Health today:

http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/lab-bio/res/psds-ftss/ebola-eng.php

10 posted on 10/02/2014 8:33:53 AM PDT by Scooter100
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To: Heartlander

Ebola, like all viruses, mutates. The Ebola Reston strain, written about in the very interesting nonfiction book, The Hot Zone, was airborne.


23 posted on 10/02/2014 10:36:05 AM PDT by Veto! (OpInions freely dispensed as advice)
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