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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ebola is also transmitted through the air when someone who has it cough, sneezes, or breathes the virus onto you. It is also an airborne virus -- that is why it is so dangerous. It is NOT like AIDS -- more like TB.

[quote]Ebola then spreads in the community through human-to-human transmission, with infection resulting from direct contact (through broken skin or mucous membranes) with the blood, secretions, organs or other bodily fluids of infected people, and [b]indirect contact with environments contaminated with such fluids[/b].[/quote]
WHO | Ebola virus disease
www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs103/en/
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It is NOT airborne.  Not transmitted through the air or an aerosol.  It is not like TB at all.
That would be horrific![/quote]

When a person coughs or sneezes, (or breathes) air born particles are produced into the air, where other people breathe or touch them when they fall to a surface. Why do you think TB patients are quarantined? Why do you think that the hospital workers are dressed up in suits from head to toe? (They don't do that for AIDS patients) Also the person can be sick and carry the virus for a few days before the symptoms arrive -- but the virus is there. To add to the situation, at first it seems like a cold ...[/quote]

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