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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Muslima]We shouldn't be too concerned about Ebola spreading to the US or other wealthy countries. It's transmitted entirely through exposure to bodily fluids. In settings with Ebola, there's bleeding in a variety of places and the virus is present in those excretions, and people need to come into contact with that to get the virus. The people at risk are the family members who are taking care of sick people, those who are preparing bodies for burial, and health-care workers.

The virus is not transmitted through coughing and sneezing, or through sitting next to someone on a bus, plane  or the like.[b] The idea that the virus can somehow mutate and become more readily transmissible from person to person through coughing or sneezing—those are Hollywood scenarios.[/b] The idea that Ebola can become more readily transmissible through casual contact is unrealistic.

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Isn't that pretty much exactly what happened with Ebola Reston in The Hot Zone?[/quote]

Wasn't the Reston strain infectious to simians only? I hope it was.[/quote]

Yes, it was.  It's been at least 10 years since I've read the book but but I'm almost positive that's what happened.  
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Lets hope it stays that way. Contagious-via-bodily-fluids-Ebola is bad enough already...[/quote]

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