ebola spreading?

[Michael Rivero]

In article <3p2n9f$1gt1 at msunews.cl.msu.edu> " Michael D. Sussman" <Sussman at pilotx.msu.edu> writes:
>Perhaps, this filovirus has an intermediate insect host, like a biting 
>fly.  The spread of the virus and interval between outbreaks might be 
>explained by cycles in the size and distribution of the population of 
>this hypothetical insect.  Many of the minus strand RNA viruses are 
>spread like this. However, this is just a suggestion.
>
>

  Zaire is right in the main habitat of the Tsetse fly, known to carry
quite a few deseases like "Sleeping sickness". That it could be a vector
for Ebola is quite reasonable. However, Ebola Reston is known to be air
transmissible.


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