From 2012: Growing concerns over 'in the air' transmission of Ebola
Panic’s big in Hollywood movies... and it the mind’s of people who like to keep secrets from the common people. So far this year not one person in the world has died of ‘panic’.
Why take the chance?
Suggesting Ebola will become airborne is 'Highly Prudent' say experts people with common sense.
Near as I can tell the odds of Ebola mutating to a point where it survives in aerosol is a real and substantive threat.
While it is true viruses that are primarily blood borne rarely if ever make the leap the odds change significantly if there is any history is any of it’s incarnations that it can and that is in either human or animal transmissions.
EBOLA zaire is has and will demonstrate aerosol propagation.
No virus is truly “airborne”. They just have varying degrees of survival on suspended water droplets.
We are lucky Ebola is still fragile outside the body but its range can begin to increase exponentially with even one initial mutation.
Yeah. What could go wrong trusting “experts”?
That’s the word that should be in quotes ,not irresponsible.
If it’s NOT airborne, how have SO many people gotten it?? Even a doctor on FOX said you couldn’t get it by kissing!!! I say BS.
In much the same way that a month ago suggesting that it would come the the United States was “irresponsible”?
Biology question. What makes a an airborne virus airborne?
I can’t think of any airborne virus that doesn’t use a body fluid, such as sneazing, as a medium, and ebola is in body fluid. So, why isn’t ebola just as easily spread from coughing as the common cold is? Does the ebola virus not exist in the nasal passages, throat, or lungs? I find that hard to believe.
I get the fact that likelihood of transmission goes way up when in contact with larger amounts of bodily fluids, but that is true of all viruses.
So why is ebola a special case?
Read “Hot Zone.” The original strain already HAS mutated into an airborne variant called Reston. It’s not nearly as virulent as Zaire or Marburg, but it’s Ebola all the same.
By the way, it got its name from the city in Virginia where the mutation occurred. And escaped.
That’s right. Virginia.
IRRESPONSIBLE IS NOT GROUNDING FLIGHTS IN AND OUT OF THESE AFRICAN HOT ZONES!!!
Irresponsible is inviting third world people to come unrestricted in to the USA.
Or Reston.
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
Rabbits could fly. Same logic. It is called evolution. Sure it could happen, and I could be hit by the beer truck tomorrow. But when assigning risk, one must look at the NOW known facts, not SPECULATION.
The game of Ebola Roulette continues...
*click* spin *click* spin *click* spin…BANG!
Eeeee-bolllll-aaaaaa ping!
Bring Out Your Dead
We’re gonna need 
a bigger cart!
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
Suggesting a virus does not, nay, WILL not mutate should raise flags for EVERYONE; as well as show them to be, at the least, hacks to be ignored/derided and humiliated.