This is a very short excerpt from about a 4 page article on this, which links to the US and Canadian government studies that refute the current "official" line on air transmission of Ebola. With the Spanish nurse in full protective gear getting Ebola and the NBC cameraman getting it within two days in Liberia without touching any patient. It is pretty clear it is airborne. There are charts of the history of Ebola and a video. I suggest looking at the complete article before voting in the poll. The article has more concentrated info about Ebola airborne transmission than likely any other. It is at:
Ebola Proven in Medical Studies to be Air Transmitted The Studies They do not Want You to Read AUN-TV
AUN-TV has found multiple medical studies that prove Ebola can and has been air transmitted. Before this issue became “politicized”, such information was not suppressed. We will provide in this article a history of Ebola (a very new disease) and a review of the studies and evidence that Ebola is air transmitted, with links to the source documents.
The Canadian Government through the Public Health Agency of Canada states on their website,
“In laboratory settings, non-human primates exposed to aerosolized ebolavirus from pigs have become infected”. On the same website they recommend respiratory protection and positive pressure suits, further indicating it can be air transmitted. It should be noted that Ebola did not originate with people, and that in new outbreaks like this one, people get it from animals first, then it spreads between people.
It should not be surprising that it is airborne transmitted. The most recent case of an American getting Ebola is Ashoka Mukpo who tested positive for Ebola just two days after he was hired to join an NBC medical crew covering the epidemic in Liberia, which included medical correspondent Nancy Snyderman.
His father, Mitchell Levy, is a Providence, R.I., physician! So how can the son of a doctor who is part of an NBC medical Ebola experts team get Ebola in two days just by filming the medical crew? Does that match what the CDC and Obama have said about how hard Ebola is to transmit, about how easy it is to contain? What does it say about the danger Obama is putting the US military in by sending them to Ebola areas? What does it say about CDC (Centers for Disease Control, US Government) assurances that it will not spread here, because our knowledge and practices are so much better than Africa’s?
The evidence does not match the rhetoric. It appears quite easy to transmit.
First the history of Ebola:
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A study by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) entitled “Transmission of Ebola Virus from pigs to non-human primates” shows that Zaire variant of the Ebola virus (current outbreak is Zaire) can be transmitted between pigs and from pigs to macaques without direct contact. This study was done in 2012.
In the study by CFIA researchers, scientists inoculated six week old piglets with the Zaire Ebola Kikwit 95 (ZEBOV) oro-nasally. The piglets were then transferred to pig pens in the same room where four cynomolgus macaques were housed in two levels of individual cages, separated from the piglets by a wire barrier 20 centimetres (8 inches) in front of the bottom level of cages to prevent direct contact between the two species.
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All four of the macaques were healthy until seven days after exposure, however at eight days after exposure, two of the macaques developed petechial hemorrhages on their skin and along internal surfaces of their arms and legs and were euthanized. The other two macaques remained healthy until twelve days after exposure when they showed clinical signs of Ebola infection. When they were euthanized, examination of their internal organs showed that there was damage to the lungs and liver. Both lungs show a pattern of lesions that suggested infection of the lungs due to the spread of the virus. It is also important to note that it appears that the piglets were able to remain symptom-free at the same time as they transmitted the disease to the macaques. Macaques were used to simulate humans without killing people.
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Some Ebola experts are coming forward pointing out the obvious about the risk.
Dr. C.J. Peters, who battled a 1989 outbreak of the virus among research monkeys housed in Virginia and who later led the CDC’s most far-reaching study of Ebola’s transmissibility in humans, said he would not rule out the possibility that it spreads through the air in tight quarters.
“We just don’t have the data to exclude it,” said Peters, who continues to research viral diseases at the University of Texas in Galveston.
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"Demonstration of fatal aerosol transmission of this virus in monkeys reinforces the importance of taking appropriate precautions to prevent its potential aerosol transmission to humans."
Who wrote this report that refutes the CDC, Obama and the rest that claim zero percent chance of air transmission? It was their own NIH (National Health Institute). Lethal experimental infections of rhesus monkeys by aerosolized Ebola virus, NIH.gov
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On another issue as to the assurances by the CDC, they say that unless an air traveler from disease-ravaged West Africa has a fever of at least 101.5 degrees or other symptoms, co-passengers are not at risk.
“At this point there is zero risk of transmission on the flight,” Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said after a Liberian man who flew through airports in Brussels and Washington was diagnosed with the disease last week in Dallas.
Really? So the CDCs Frieden would be fine sitting next to someone who has had the Ebola virus for 15 days and has a temperature of 101.4 degrees for 6 hours on a flight? Would he allow his daughter to do the same? Would any of us sit next to a 101.4 degree Ebola infected person on a flight? We all know the answer to this question. The CDC’s claim of zero risk is absurd and only further erodes their credibility.
Remember what the Canadian study proved: “It is also important to note that it appears that the piglets were able to remain symptom-free at the same time as they transmitted the disease to the macaques.”
