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Experts: Ebola Could be Transmitted At a Distance From
Infected Victims
Posted By Paul Joseph Watson On October 2, 2014 @ 4:09 pm In Featured Stories,Tile | No
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Professors at the University of Illinois in Chicago assert that the Ebola virus has the
potential to be transmitted via infectious aerosol particles both near and at a distance
from infected patients, suggesting that the current understanding of Ebola only being
communicable via direct contact is inaccurate.
In a piece published by CIDRAP, the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy,
authors Dr Lisa Brosseau and Dr Rachael Jones highlight how Ebola currently has unclear
modes of transmission.
We believe there is scientific and epidemiologic evidence that Ebola virus has the
potential to be transmitted via infectious aerosol particles both near and at a distance
from infected patients, which means that healthcare workers should be wearing
respirators, not facemasks, states the article.
Making reference to controversy about whether Ebola virus can be transmitted via
aerosols, the authors assert that the current understanding that Ebola can only be
transmitted by by direct contact with virus-laden fluids is incorrect and outmoded.
The authors note that US health professionals currently tackling Ebola are being put at
risk because of the failure to offer them proper respiratory protection, making reference
to hundreds of fatalities of Ebola health workers in West Africa due to facemasks or
surgical masks which offer very minimal protection from infectious aerosol particles.
Being at first skeptical that Ebola virus could be an aerosol-transmissible disease, we are
now persuaded by a review of experimental and epidemiologic data that this might be an
important feature of disease transmission, particularly in healthcare settings, states the
article.
Earlier today, Anthony Banbury, the United Nations Ebola response chief warned of the
nightmare scenario that Ebola could go airborne as a result of a mutation if it continues
to infect new hosts.
The longer it moves around in human hosts in the virulent melting pot that is West
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Africa, the more chances increase that it could mutate, said Banbury, adding, It is a
nightmare scenario, and unlikely, but it cant be ruled out.
As we reported yesterday, the Public Health Agency of Canada deleted information from
its official website which indicated that the airborne spread of Ebola was strongly
suspected by health authorities.
Michael T. Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at
the University of Minnesota, also acknowledged in a recent New York Times op-ed that
virologists are loath to discuss openly but are definitely considering in private the
possibility that Ebola has gone airborne.
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