\u201cContracting [Ebola] requires direct contact with the bodily fluids \u2014 blood, feces, vomit \u2014 of someone who is symptomatic with the disease. You cannot catch Ebola from someone who is incubating it but not symptomatic; and you cannot catch it from simply being in the same room as someone who has it. (If you\u2019re going to quote back to me the infamous \u2018airborne Ebola\u2019 paper from 2012, don\u2019t bother. Six pigs, four monkeys, engineered lab conditions: no relevance to any real-world situation in a household or a hospital.)\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\nHave some faith in God, America.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It\u2019s not all that infectious. \u201cContracting [Ebola] requires direct contact with the bodily fluids \u2014 blood, feces, vomit \u2014 of someone who is symptomatic with the disease. You cannot catch Ebola from someone who is incubating it but not symptomatic; and you cannot catch it from simply being in the same room as someone who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[612],"class_list":["post-54377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-be-not-afraid"],"yoast_head":"\n
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