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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wtf [url]http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/30/cdc-ebola_n_6078072.html[/url]

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First of all, Huff Post has posted quite a few articles claiming vaccines cause autism. So take anything you read there with a grain of salt.

Second, the point is that Ebola is NOT airborne. This whole think about droplets would mislead the public. NO ONE has contracted Ebola from a sneeze.[/quote]

You don't know if anyone has contracted it through sneezing.

The science says it is in saliva and mucus. And if that is wrong, the conclusion becomes: we don't know all of &quot;the science&quot; yet.

But we're importing it anyway through casual travel and individual HCW traveling as they please. Hickox wants to bike. Spencer and Vinson chose subway, plane. Do we know their moment of contagiousness? [/quote]
Seriously, if it could be spread through a sneeze, there would be MILLIONS infected in Africa.  There hasn't even been 15k sickened.[/quote]

It is present in saliva and mucus secretions. [/quote]
Yes, but that mucuous would need to go straight into a cut, a mouth, an eye.  The HCW's aren't going around licking subway handrails hoping someone will touch it immediately and then stick their finger in their mouth.[/quote]

Could it go: vomit or sneeze --&gt; hand --&gt; surface --&gt; second person's hand --&gt; second person's face? How long does the virus live on surfaces? Doesn't it depend on temperature and humidity?[/quote]

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