Not really, by the time Ebola is externally contagious, patents are unlikely to be ambulatory. The onset of very debilitating symptoms is rapid and external infection is usually possible after those symptoms appear, and aspiration is supposedly a very low infection vector. Typical barrier protection is very effective in protecting health care workers as long as the appropriate procedures are applied.
However and this will give some people nightmares, if a man has had Ebola and recovers, the virus can still be transmitted in his semen for up to 7 weeks after recovery.
Good point but you can still be infectious without severe symptoms.
Do you have any studies on this disease spreading this way? Because I've read nothing of the sort, and if this were the case with how poor this area is you'd have a lot more infected or dead.
Did some reading and it seems that aerosol spread is actually very rare so sorry if I mislead with my last post.
The most likely route of spread is through direct contact or through re use of needles or needlestick injury etc. Indirect contact can also happen.
Here's some more info on transmission through contaminated objects.
Sciencedirect.com has some good stuff. Here's a
PDF that's pretty interesting. It talks about some airline guidelines from the CDC and talks about indirect contact.
The industry can have some stupid logic, this might become a developed country problem soon and the execs are looking to excel sheets calculating the cost of research, it's sickening some times.
I can see what you're saying but where's the money going to come from?
It's sad how research in certain things is lacking and there are some pretty terrible drugs/things that go on in pharmaceutics. Money is the at the heart of this though. If there were unlimited resources great things would happen.
If you were in charge of research, would you rather dedicate resources to cancer research or malaria/ebola?
