I'd like your thoughts.
I've directed them to the CDC's website, which I really do value as an accurate and good source of info. (I don't trust them blindly, but they do tend to be reliable.) http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/outbreaks/guinea/qa.html
One friend posted this study:
http://www.nature.com/srep/2012/121115/ ... 00811.html
(She actually posted 3 things that referenced this one study.) My response was this:
Is that an accurate assessment of the study? Other thoughts? Are my friends right to be freaking out?Well, one study does not a conclusion make, and, as far as I could tell, all of these articles are referencing the same study. There are also a lot of extra parameters they threw in there that may not even occur in the wild. So, while it is troubling and deserves much more research, it can't be viewed as definitive. One of the researchers said [in one of her other links] that it might be transmitted via large droplets which can't hang in the air for very long. If it is airborne at all, this seems the most likely scenario. Otherwise, like your friend, Doug, said above, the outbreak would be much worse than it already is. I do think the bigger concern is the lack of restrictions on air travel. I know there are some measures being taken, but I'd like to see them close the borders to these countries except to medical personnel and the like until the outbreak is under control.