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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I've been poo pooing the idea of airborne spread of Ebola but I just read this article:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/31/us-health-ebola-transport-idUSKBN0G011O20140731

[quote]The spread of this outbreak from Guinea to Liberia in March shows how tracing even the most routine aspects of peoples' lives, relationships and reactions will be vital to containing Ebola's spread.

The original case in that instance is believed by epidemiologists and virus experts to have been a woman who went to a market in Guinea before returning, unwell, to her home village in neighboring northern Liberia.

The woman's sister cared for her, and in doing so contracted the Ebola virus herself before her sibling died of the hemorrhagic fever it causes.

Feeling unwell and fearing a similar fate, the sister wanted to see her husband - an internal migrant worker then employed on the other side of Liberia at the Firestone rubber plantation.

[b]She took a communal taxi via Liberia's capital Monrovia, exposing five other people to the virus who later contracted and died of the Ebola[/b]. In Monrovia, she switched to a motorcycle, riding pillion with young man who agreed to take her to the plantation and whom health authorities were subsequently desperate to trace. [/quote]

Have you heard of this woman's story?   She took a communal taxi and somehow exposed 5 people to Ebola, all of whom died?   How did that happen on a taxi??[/quote]

Why do you assume she wasn't pooping in her pants and vomiting in the taxi as she was dying of ebola? That's what I would imagine she was doing as she got sicker and sicker.[/quote]

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