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>From: wrkushne at mailbox.syr.edu (William S. Kushner)
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>Subject: ebola virus
>Date: 15 May 1995 00:13:08 GMT
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>>Can anyone define "casual" contact for this virus. I don't understand
>how all those health workers came down with this disease especially
>since most were other than doctors and therefore not directly
>involved with operations.
>It is my understanding that it is passed probably by the repiratory
tract....meaning "breathing" near another will transmit the virus!!! Casual
contact refers to everyday, daily contact.....doctors in operations would be
protected at least to a certain extent, if the virus is transmitted in an
airborne/respiratory fashion. Nurses andhealth care workers coming into real
contact with patients would be more likely to have the virus transmitted.
Note: I am not a doctor...just a biologist very interested in this disease.
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