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Ebola — airborne or not?
Two years ago (SN: 12/15/12, p. 12) an Ebola study stoked notions of a terror transmissible by air when pigs passed the virus to monkeys. Tina Hesman Saey reported in “Airborne transmission of Ebola unlikely” (SN: 9/6/14, p. 7), though, that the phenomenon may be more thriller than threat.
The story reminded a few readers of a high-profile U.S. outbreak, when a variant of the virus appeared in lab monkeys imported from the Philippines. “Didn’t the Reston, Va., Ebola outbreak of 1989 show evidence of aerosol transmission?” asked Ken Jordan.