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To: SgtHooper
These morons. Anyone with marginal reasoning capabilities figgered this out long ago, that coughing, breathing hard (during workouts, heavy physical exercise) etc., can eject this into the air for short distances.

No scientific study has ever showed that Ebola can be spread in this matter.

Ebola does not infect the respiratory system.

Ebola viruses are several times bigger than viruses that spread by aerosols. They are also fragile and do not survive being dried out like influenza, chickenpox, or measles viruses that do spread in aerosols.

If Ebola could be spread by coughs, sneezes, heavy breathing, it would have spread around the world already. Compare it to influenza, which is thought to spread that way. Influenza only takes weeks to reach every part of the northern hemisphere during flu season.

36 posted on 11/02/2014 6:00:31 AM PST by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: exDemMom

Do not agree. It has been said over and over that ebola needs a way into the body—a point of ingress. Respiratory is only one way. It doesn’t need to be into the lungs, only the bodily fluids, which there are many on the way to the lungs. Much chatter about covering skin, completely. If it can gain entry though cracks in the skin, it can certainly enter through the easy points such as eyes, cuts, nose, mouth, and any other orifice.

It has already been said that a big reason it has not spread out of control up to now, in Africa, is that it affects those remote areas where people are localized and typically it runs its course before those people get to more populated areas, if at all.

Your post also is contra to the notion that it can survive in fluid such as semen up to 70-90 days, which has been put out there. So please clarify this for me.


55 posted on 11/02/2014 3:53:48 PM PST by SgtHooper (Anyone who remembers the 60's, wasn't there!)
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