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In reply to the discussion: Ebola can be spread through the droplets of a cough or sneeze. [View all]riqster
(13,986 posts)26. It requires detailed and complete knowledge.
The CDC doc linked makes it plain that actual contact with bodily fluids is STILL required to catch Ebola.
This is old information, rephrased and incomplete. Gives a mistaken impression. OP needs detail added.
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Ebola can be spread through the droplets of a cough or sneeze. [View all]
Nuclear Unicorn
Oct 2014
OP
the family of patient zero who dealt with him are ebola negative and im sure
belzabubba333
Oct 2014
#1
Congratulations on turning the term "weasel words" into a weasel phrase.
Nuclear Unicorn
Oct 2014
#94
Numerous family members in Africa have caught it from the infected family members.
LisaL
Oct 2014
#3
we arent in africa and there may have been other factors you know since we're not in africa
belzabubba333
Oct 2014
#8
Please explain to me, if it's so contagious, how not one American health care worker
catbyte
Oct 2014
#38
How many American health care workers have been treating Ebola patients until the current outbreak?
LisaL
Oct 2014
#80
Yeah, but Ebola was just as virulent then as it is now. Modern society intervened,
catbyte
Oct 2014
#82
The question for everybody at the end of the day, exposed or not exposed, is
woodsprite
Oct 2014
#14
i dont see why it would change - everyone that got ebloa here and got treated in time
belzabubba333
Oct 2014
#25
IIRC one of the Nebraska cases was rescued from near death by a serum donation
HereSince1628
Oct 2014
#29
An African study showed that 16% of family members had gotten it. So that's not negligible.
pnwmom
Oct 2014
#84
No, Oh-bola! Yodeled like Ri-cola for coughs. Gotta keep up with the slurs. n/t
freshwest
Oct 2014
#49
rocky mountain mike from the stephanie miller show did a song parody of lola/ebola
belzabubba333
Oct 2014
#83
But you have to poke a hole in the bag for air. To 'avoid suffocation,' the bag says. Then what?
freshwest
Oct 2014
#55
Your OP is incomplete & thus misleading. It can be spread by a SYMPTOMATIC cough or sneeze.
KittyWampus
Oct 2014
#7
More of the "I am not a scientist", but......I want to pretend to be one because of my fear.
Fred Sanders
Oct 2014
#24
Tied straight into that reptilian reflex and survival mechanism. Works perfectly.
freshwest
Oct 2014
#57
True, but you're probably going to be able to see signs that a person
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
Oct 2014
#15
LESS THAN THREE FEET IN DISTANCE. Please clarify, this is not AIRBORNE transmission. n/y
Avalux
Oct 2014
#20
Maybe if they sneeze right on you and it gets into your eyes, nose or mouth.
yellowcanine
Oct 2014
#21
Plenty of healthcare professionals are being infected without having patients sneezing on their eyes
Nuclear Unicorn
Oct 2014
#59
No kidding, the question was about getting Ebola from sneezing. Pay attention.
yellowcanine
Oct 2014
#65
exactly. The virus doesn't infect the entire body until very late stage, when the
magical thyme
Oct 2014
#48
only after the patient is symptomatic, and it would be in the later stages of the disease
magical thyme
Oct 2014
#46
i know. it was duct tape. we need to just start handing out bleach aerosol. cha..ching.
seabeyond
Oct 2014
#56