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Ebola lab samples yield questions as well as answers
"Contact with bodily fluids" is the short answer to the question of how the Ebola virus is transmitted. But what exactly do health officials mean by that, and what scientific research is their advice based on? As public concern about the virus grows, many people are seeking more details about how Ebola is spread and how long the virus typically lives in a person's body and in the environment......
(this article contains many numbers about transmission, some of which differ significantly from other sources, e.g., they say there is NO virus in sweat. They also have different numbers on virus survival on surfaces. However sample sizes are small)
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"Contact with bodily fluids" is the short answer to the question of how the Ebola virus is transmitted. But what exactly do health officials mean by that, and what scientific research is their advice based on? As public concern about the virus grows, many people are seeking more details about how Ebola is spread and how long the virus typically lives in a person's body and in the environment......
(this article contains many numbers about transmission, some of which differ significantly from other sources, e.g., they say there is NO virus in sweat. They also have different numbers on virus survival on surfaces. However sample sizes are small)
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