Ebola virus: Transmission.

[Daniel B. Watkins]

There has been a question raised over the last twenty four hours that
needs answering: If the virus is spread only by contact with bodily fluids,
how could so many health care workers in the hospital that treated the
initial patient in this outbreak have become infected? Did all of them come in 
contact with the patient's bodily fluids?

It is quite possible that they did, given the hygiene (or lack of it)
conditions!

 
In a previous article, Tengleong.Chew at launchpad.unc.edu (TengLeong Chew) says:

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>	As far as I can tell from the news, the virus is currently not
>air-borne but transmitted through body fluid. I have a question about this:
>Is it transmitted by insects like mosquitoes?
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>	Does anyone know if this possibility is currently being tested if
>the answer to the above question is not yet known?
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> - T. L. Chew
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