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What USED TO BE on the Web page of the CDC as of 8/2/14:

“In this guidance healthcare personnel (HCP) refers all persons, paid and unpaid, working in healthcare settings who have the potential for exposure to patients and/or to infectious materials, including body substances, contaminated medical supplies and equipment, contaminated environmental surfaces, or contaminated air.

https://web.archive.org/web/20140802085653/http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/hcp/infection-prevention-and-control-recommendations.html

Transmission of Ebola virus from pigs to non-human primates

A study conducted in 2012 showed that Ebola was able to travel between pigs and monkeys that were in separate cages and were never placed in direct contact.

http://www.nature.com/srep/2012/121115/srep00811/full/srep00811.html

28 posted on 10/12/2014 5:41:49 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA (When Injustice becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty.-Thomas Jefferson)

To: Red in Blue PA

Well a definition of “contaminated air” would help. That source does not appear to use very exact terminology. In any case any serious airborne contamination would have killed half of the crowds in West Point a month ago.

31 posted on 10/12/2014 5:46:12 PM PDT by palmer (This comment is not approved or cleared by FDA)

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