re: Ebola prevention demonstration for medical staff

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So, is it not true that one can only get ebola by consuming it through the mouth, sexually, or if it gets into eyes, ears, etc? How did Nina Pham get it if all her opening were covered?

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It is a good question with an easy answer.

If one were to take Beck's Ebola prevention demonstration (disclosure: haven't seen it) to its logical end, one would find an alarmingly reliable transfer from body locations to hands (assuming hands were even washed initially), and from hands to mouth, eyes, cuts, etc.

When talking about spread of coliform bacteria (Poo-Poo germs) in similar fashion, the subject of transference gets really nasty.