Ebola mediums

[john murray]

	Pardon me for sounding dumb here, I am not a professional at 
this, but am interested (and my knowledge is limited to Hot Zone and the 
various readings on the net)/

	In Hot Zone didn't they have a case where an infected  monkey 
transmitted ebola to another monkey who was physically seperated by air 
space in a containment room (at USAMRIID).  If I remember correctly, it 
is possible that it was from them throwing food or feces at each other, 
but given lack of evidence, it would appear that there is at least some 
proof that ebola could be airborn (If I remember correctly, they were 
using mebenga (I know the spelling is definately not correct).

John 


A. M. Lotto (aurelia at u.washington.edu) wrote:
: In the Hot Zone it was Ebola Ruston that was airborn.  Ruston apparently 
: does not effect humans in the same way other strains of Ebola do.  It 
: kills monkeys but not people.  

: Outbreak was, after all, fiction, despite that it was based in part on 
: factual information.  All virology references I have do not report Ebola 
: as being able to infect humans through air.