"Here's How You Get Ebola"

[Wasillaguy]

Originally Posted by Ike Bana

Who can say why people behave in the way they do? Some people walk around with half a roll of aluminum foil stuffed into their hats to protect their brains from alien space rays.

http://www.iflscience.com/health-and...ed-through-air

Right now the science says the Ebola virus can only be transmitted through an exchange of bodily fluids. That's how AIDS is transmitted. Perhaps further scientific investigation will show that it's a virus that is somehow more opportunistic than AIDS and more severe precautions are required. But that's not the case now. I'm sure nobody wants to take a chance. In the early days of the spread of AIDS, there were thousands of healthcare workers that refused to provide care to HIV/AIDS patients.



Universal precautions are used when treating patients with non-airborne transmitted viruses. People are bleaching their homes and their dogs and their chickens because they don't understand that once outside the body, viruses are wimpy little creatures that are barely alive at all.



AIDS workers are serious about following universal precautions and they don't get AIDS unless there's an accident. A needle prick through a surgical glove will do it.

So what you're saying is you can't find an example where a health worker has contracted AIDS simply by touching their face, right?
That's because HIV/AIDS requires blood transmission or intimate contact for transmission; ebola requires only bodily fluid contact with skin. It's entirely different, and much easier to spread.