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To: Ray76

“not airborne”

Oh please, a sneeze causes droplets of the pathogen to be in the air.


11 posted on 10/06/2014 7:52:50 PM PDT by TheConservativeParty (Colleen Hufford, American. We will never forget.)
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To: TheConservativeParty

It’s a medical definition.

Airborne in these terms means that the virus is expired in your breath and it lives, suspended in the air. The key is that others would be infected by breathing in the air.

Ebola transmits through waste, vomit, and oozing blood from your openings. Contact with a surface (skin, toilet, blanket, clothes,etc) will transfer the virus. The transmission through sneeze droplets is possible, but not proven.

Transmission, in medical terms, is pretty difficult. Lethality is high. So the thing to remember is, hard to get...easy to die.


72 posted on 10/07/2014 6:50:47 AM PDT by Vermont Lt (Ebola: Death is a lagging indicator.)
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