re: Eboli Containment Logistics question

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NC_Tigah

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did you read the study and if so was it this one? LINK

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Here we show ZEBOV transmission from pigs to cynomolgus macaques without direct contact.

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so pig to monkey (human) okay we knew that but

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Interestingly, transmission between macaques in similar housing conditions was never observed.

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monkey to monkey (human to human) not observed.

also from the study

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he design and size of the animal cubicle did not allow to distinguish whether the transmission was by aerosol, small or large droplets in the air, or droplets created during floor cleaning which landed inside the NHP cages (fomites).

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We have also never observed transmission of EBOV from infected to naive macaques, including in an experiment employing the same cage setting as in the current study,

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although pigs can generate infectious short range large aerosol droplets more efficiently then other species1

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so pigs can make short range aerosol droplets that infect other species but the monkeys even when they were in the same cage did not pass it on.

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NC_Tigah

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Just curious do you have any background in medicine or viral research? This is no way a callout or shot, I am just curious.