10-02-2014, 12:47 PM
before going into irrational hysterics in regard to ebola mutating, see sections "Do you have any sense that airborne transmission may be possible for Ebola?" & "What exactly does direct contact mean?".
http://www.npr.org/blogs/goatsandsoda/20...l-too-well
"No, I don't think airborne transmission is going on. "
"But it's not an easily transmitted disease; it's something that has to have that direct contact."
"I can't think of any example of mutations that have fundamentally changed the biology of a [virus] so it's transmitted through a different mechanism than would be its norm, and so there are mutations that would make something a little bit more transmissible or less transmissible, but not necessarily changing its complete mode of transmission. So I don't think that there's airborne transmission of this virus, not in terms of the true aerosolized virus sense."
http://www.npr.org/blogs/goatsandsoda/20...l-too-well
"No, I don't think airborne transmission is going on. "
"But it's not an easily transmitted disease; it's something that has to have that direct contact."
"I can't think of any example of mutations that have fundamentally changed the biology of a [virus] so it's transmitted through a different mechanism than would be its norm, and so there are mutations that would make something a little bit more transmissible or less transmissible, but not necessarily changing its complete mode of transmission. So I don't think that there's airborne transmission of this virus, not in terms of the true aerosolized virus sense."