Mutations of Ebola

[Vasconcelos Costa 385]

hamlet at ux7.cso.uiuc.edu (James J Hurlburt) writes:
> 
> 
> I hope that I'm not mistaken but wasn't the version of Ebola that broke
> in the lab monkeys in the United States airborn? At least in the book
> "The Hot Zone" it mentioned that monkeys in different cages and in seprate
> rooms were infecting each other. By dumb luck this new version of the virus
> wasn't deadly to humans.
> 
> 
I am not sure that transmission to animals in different cages should obligato-
rily be airborn. Possible alternatives: transmission by caretakers (conta-
minated hands, etc), spread by droplets when washing the cages.

Joao V. Costa

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