CDC updates website - Ebola COULD BE transmitted via 'droplets'

The Centers for Disease Control has updated their website and it suggests that Ebola may be an airborne virus.

LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has updated their website to feature information about the Ebola outbreak and buried in their advisories is the recommendation that people wear face-masks when dealing with possible Ebola patients.

U.S. officials have previously insisted that Ebola is not an airborne disease and that it is, in fact, difficult to catch Ebola. However, we have seen that the evidence does not match with this description. If Ebola were so hard to catch, then why are three African countries being overrun with the illness?

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The CDC is discussing the possibility of becoming infected by "droplets" from people infected by Ebola. They recommend that a person take "droplet precautions" around people infected with Ebola. If you read the precautions, it specifically mentions measures that are consistent with prevention of airborne infection.

Airborne precautions follow these and refer to diseases such as Tuberculosis. Should Ebola be added to the list?

Conclusions that Ebola is not an airborne disease are possibly premature. It is also possible that the disease, which is famously unstable in human hosts, could mutate to become airborne. Ebola is now believed to survive in droplets of fluids. While the disease probably cannot survive exposed to the elements for long, it can survive in droplets of mucous, vomit and feces which can mimic the airborne effect if droplets of these are sprayed.

The fact is that nobody knows the truth about Ebola, or if they do, they aren't saying. This terrible disease is spreading rapidly, including as a sexually transmitted disease -also acknowledged by the CDC.

Ebola isn't going away in a few weeks or months. We haven't turned the corner, we do not have the upper hand on the emerging pandemic. No matter how sophisticated or advanced we think we are, we will quickly find that we are virtually powerless in the face of nature's wrath.

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