Ebola mediums

[Art Loeffler]

Cyberiot at ix.netcom.com (S. M. Fitzgerald) wrote: 
> 
>Mark: 
> 
>In "The Hot Zone," Preston suggests that subsequent work with monkeys 
>revealed that the E. Zaire substrain can be transmitted by air, at 
>least between monkeys. See conversation between Nancy Jaax and Preston 
>on pp.255-256.  They're looking at lung slides taken from a monkey that 
>contracted E. Zaire BY AIR;  
 
Actually, to quote the book: "This is Ebola Zaire in a monkey that was   
exposed through the lungs in 1986, in a study..."  The implication was   
_not_ that the monkey contracted E. Zaire by air, but that the lung was   
chosen as point of introducing infection in the study. 
 
>the virus is seen replicating in its lung 
>tissue and is, therefore, pneumonically transmissible. 
 
The rest is reasonably accurate -- the message was that Ebola had   
_adapted_ to the lung tissue of the monkey, and was then transmittable  
through sputum.   
 
>S. M. Fitzgerald 
>Cyberiot at ix.netcom.com 
>73330.3503 at compuserve.com 
>V-mail:  602/838-1657 
> 
 
Art Loeffler