Ebola

Todd c590510 at showme.missouri.edu
Sat May 13 15:35:56 EST 1995


David Ornstein (davido at apocalypse.org) wrote:
: dbach at julian.uwo.ca (Dniel Bach) wrote: 
: >Friday May 12, 1995- 
: > 
: >Globe and Mail (Canada) reports that the Red Cross stated that Zaire   
: Ebola is  
: >an airborne strain with 90% fatality.    
:  
: Can you provide any references to this information?  A press release?    
: Where did you hear the story?  As far as I know, the Zaire strain has not   
: been documented to transmit airborne except possibly between monkeys. 

 My understanding is that the only strain believed to be airborne was the 
RESTON  strain that broke out in Reston, Virginia in 1989.  The Reston 
strain was believed to be transmitted airborne through *monkeys* but not 
humans.  And even *then*,  there was/is no documented proof.   At least, to 
MY knowledge there is none. 

Todd

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