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In reply to the discussion: Ebola can be spread through the droplets of a cough or sneeze. [View all]jen63
(813 posts)52. This is not a respiratory virus.
How often do you sneeze or cough if you don't have a respiratory virus?
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Ebola can be spread through the droplets of a cough or sneeze. [View all]
Nuclear Unicorn
Oct 2014
OP
the family of patient zero who dealt with him are ebola negative and im sure
belzabubba333
Oct 2014
#1
Congratulations on turning the term "weasel words" into a weasel phrase.
Nuclear Unicorn
Oct 2014
#94
Numerous family members in Africa have caught it from the infected family members.
LisaL
Oct 2014
#3
we arent in africa and there may have been other factors you know since we're not in africa
belzabubba333
Oct 2014
#8
Please explain to me, if it's so contagious, how not one American health care worker
catbyte
Oct 2014
#38
How many American health care workers have been treating Ebola patients until the current outbreak?
LisaL
Oct 2014
#80
Yeah, but Ebola was just as virulent then as it is now. Modern society intervened,
catbyte
Oct 2014
#82
The question for everybody at the end of the day, exposed or not exposed, is
woodsprite
Oct 2014
#14
i dont see why it would change - everyone that got ebloa here and got treated in time
belzabubba333
Oct 2014
#25
IIRC one of the Nebraska cases was rescued from near death by a serum donation
HereSince1628
Oct 2014
#29
An African study showed that 16% of family members had gotten it. So that's not negligible.
pnwmom
Oct 2014
#84
No, Oh-bola! Yodeled like Ri-cola for coughs. Gotta keep up with the slurs. n/t
freshwest
Oct 2014
#49
rocky mountain mike from the stephanie miller show did a song parody of lola/ebola
belzabubba333
Oct 2014
#83
But you have to poke a hole in the bag for air. To 'avoid suffocation,' the bag says. Then what?
freshwest
Oct 2014
#55
Your OP is incomplete & thus misleading. It can be spread by a SYMPTOMATIC cough or sneeze.
KittyWampus
Oct 2014
#7
More of the "I am not a scientist", but......I want to pretend to be one because of my fear.
Fred Sanders
Oct 2014
#24
Tied straight into that reptilian reflex and survival mechanism. Works perfectly.
freshwest
Oct 2014
#57
True, but you're probably going to be able to see signs that a person
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
Oct 2014
#15
LESS THAN THREE FEET IN DISTANCE. Please clarify, this is not AIRBORNE transmission. n/y
Avalux
Oct 2014
#20
Maybe if they sneeze right on you and it gets into your eyes, nose or mouth.
yellowcanine
Oct 2014
#21
Plenty of healthcare professionals are being infected without having patients sneezing on their eyes
Nuclear Unicorn
Oct 2014
#59
No kidding, the question was about getting Ebola from sneezing. Pay attention.
yellowcanine
Oct 2014
#65
exactly. The virus doesn't infect the entire body until very late stage, when the
magical thyme
Oct 2014
#48
only after the patient is symptomatic, and it would be in the later stages of the disease
magical thyme
Oct 2014
#46
i know. it was duct tape. we need to just start handing out bleach aerosol. cha..ching.
seabeyond
Oct 2014
#56