Killing disinformation about how Ebola spreads

People here are under the misconception that ebola is airborne and also could be spread through water reservoirs to infect on a wide scale. This is simply untrue.

"Health experts repeatedly emphasize that human-to-human transmission requires direct contact with infected bodily fluids, including blood, vomit and feces.

And to infect, those fluids have to reach a break in the skin or the mucous membranes found around your eyes, mouth and nose."


Route of transmission has been known for a while. The virus is not airborne.

"During the 1995 Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention followed 173 family members of 27 people infected with the virus. Seventy-eight people had no direct contact with an infected person, but they could have been exposed to Ebola through the air. None got infected.

The 28 family members who did get sick all had some sort of physical contact with an ill person."

What about contaminating water sources?

"In water, the Ebola virus would be deactivated in a matter of minutes, Schmaljohn says. That's because each Ebola virus is encased in an envelope taken from the outer surface, or membrane, of a host cell."

Read and educate yourself. Doom and fright are one thing but disregarding real facts in favor of spreading those two things is another.

[link to www.npr.org]