Another man was shipped into Atlanta with the virus, may God have mercy on all of our souls. Kind of irritating the first patient was only in level 2 quarentine instead of level 4 which Ebola requires, and that more doctors have been sent to West Africa to fight the disease at its source.
Seriously though, that mashable article isn't really anything new since its mostly comprised of quotes from the CDC and WHO themselves. It's doubtful that anything big will happen with Ebola in first world countries because of the whole hygiene thing, but this virus still needs to be properly contained in a sealed vault located somewhere deeper than hell.
Someone on the comments wrote:First of all, your definition of airborne is completely wrong. Secondly, the study couldn't actually prove that the virus was in fact airborne. "Airborne" means that the virus can travel on its own with the air currents without dying of exposure. This was of course not the case in this study. Since the virus was contained in water droplets it exists in fluid just like it would in blood and saliva. What the study showed was that Ebola can be transferred through water, which is something we already knew, and the study also proved that you can get infected with Ebola if you spend enough time in close proximity to an infected host while not wearing a breathing mask. You could still potentially be safe a few hundred feet away from an infected host depending on the environmental conditions such as airflow and air filtration, assuming it's inside for example a hospital.
Your argument here proved absolutely nothing. If anything you've just proven yourself wrong because your entire argument is based around your own ignorance surrounding the definition of the word "airborne" and is further fueled by your own paranoia. The media hasn't lied. They've said exactly the same thing as you did in this video; the virus travels through fluids, not air. Fluids in the air that contains a virus does not make said virus airborne. It makes the fluid itself airborne. Claiming that it does would be like claiming that cows can fly because you strapped one to a hot air balloon.
SnifitGuy wrote:I know this might sound racist (it's intention is not), but how do people live in West Africa if the disease's source is their?
Africans don't have conditions to go to another continent.
Some of foreigns are done with the inequality in Africa and are trying to change this situation.
Others are doctors hired to take care of Africans' diseases, including ebola.
