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For your information Dr. Kildare, a strain of Ebola has already been shown to infect via airborne spread from pigs to primates in a lab setting.

That was speculated but not proven. If you look at some analysis of that indecent with the monkeys by top virologists and infectious disease specialists they aren't so sure it was airborne. Ebola affects pigs and monkeys differently for starters, and there was no proof that the exposure was not due to direct contact with saliva/perspiration.

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Posted by bamarep

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Posted on 10/2/14 at 12:31 pm to TigerDog83

It can be spread through droplet contamination. Droplets can be airborne. It can be spread airborne. CDC is feeding us a line of shite with this.

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Posted by NC_Tigah

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Posted on 10/2/14 at 12:38 pm to TigerDog83

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That was speculated but not proven. If you look at some analysis of that indecent with the monkeys by top virologists and infectious disease specialists they aren't so sure it was airborne.

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Transmission of Ebola virus from pigs tonon-human primates

Hana M. Weingartl1,2, Carissa Embury-Hyatt1, Charles Nfon1, Anders Leung3, Greg Smith1& Gary Kobinger3,2

1National Centre for Foreign Animal Disease, Canadian Food Inspection Agency, 1015 Arlington St. Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3E3M4, Canada,2Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada,3National MicrobiologyLaboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, 1015 Arlington St., Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3E 3R2, Canada.

Ebola viruses (EBOV) cause often fatal hemorrhagic fever in several species of simian primates including human. While fruit bats are considered natural reservoir, involvement of other species in EBOV transmission is unclear. In 2009, Reston-EBOV was the first EBOV detected in swine with indicated transmission to humans. In-contact transmission of Zaire-EBOV (ZEBOV) between pigs was demonstrated experimentally. Here we show ZEBOV transmission from pigs to cynomolgus macaques without direct contact. Interestingly, transmission between macaques in similar housing conditions was never observed. Piglets inoculated oro-nasally with ZEBOV were transferred to the room housing macaques in an open inaccessible cage system. All macaques became infected. Infectious virus was detected in oro-nasal swabs of piglets, and in blood, swabs, and tissues of macaques. This is the first report of experimental interspecies virus transmission, with the macaques also used as a human surrogate. Our finding may influence prevention and control measures during EBOV outbreaks.

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