90 Miles From Tyranny : Ebola Aerosolizes in Cold Weather, A Bloody Sneeze Aerosolizes it, One Drop Of Aerosolized Blood Can Kill One Half Million People

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Monday, October 27, 2014

Ebola Aerosolizes in Cold Weather, A Bloody Sneeze Aerosolizes it, One Drop Of Aerosolized Blood Can Kill One Half Million People



From The Journal Of Infectious Diseases:
during the 1989–1990 epizootic of the Reston subtype of Ebola, there was circumstantial evidence of airborne spread of the virus, and supporting observations included suggestive epidemiology in patterns of spread within rooms and between rooms in the quarantine facility, high concentrations of virus in nasal and oropharyngeal secretions, and ultrastructural visualization of abundant virus particles in alveoli [17, 50]. 
..and that occurred in hot weather....


http://jid.oxfordjournals.org/content/179/Supplement_1/ix.long 

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