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**** BREAKING! Ebola may go airborne! ****
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 27455453:MV8yMDU0NTMxXzM0NTQzMzM0Xzc0NUZGNUM1] [quote:Anonymous Coward 27521421:MV8yMDU0NTMxXzM0NTM5ODEyXzdFQzJFMUU3] This is super old news. As in, two decades old news. The Reston strain of the ebola virus (aka the Reston virus) has been airborne for a long time, and as in the op, was discovered in macaques. But it isn't really infectious to humans so all the people freaking out in here need to chill the fuck out. Yes, the Reston virus is airborne. Yes, it can be transmitted from pigs to macaques. This is all very old news. It is totally non-pathogenic to humans though. Calm down! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reston_virus [/quote] until it mutates..or the government finds out how to weaponize airbourne ebola. I'm sure they have already, just have yet to unleash it [/quote]
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The Ebola virus can spread through the air from pigs to macaques, a new study suggests.
Transmission of the virus — which causes an often fatal hemorrhagic fever in people and primates — was thought to require direct contact with body fluids from an infected animal or person. But in the new study, published online November 15 in Scientific Reports, piglets infected with Ebola passed the virus to macaques housed in the same room even though the animals never touched.
“The evidence that the virus got from a pig to a monkey through a respiratory route is good,” says Glenn Marsh, a molecular virologist at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization’s Animal Health Laboratory in Geelong, Australia. Marsh was not involved in the new study but has investigated Ebola and other viruses in pigs.
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