It says almost the same information about the common cold. Which is transmitted the exact same way. Only big difference is the cold virus will live on a shopping cart handle for up to 72 hours or 3 days. The Ebola virus up to 50 days. A cold is transmitted by body fluids. You sneeze, blow your nose, get the germs on your hands, shake hands, that person rubs their eye, transmission. Same with Ebola. Probably it is harder to transmit than a cold, but not really proven.
The only big difference is a person with a cold tends to try and carry on as usual and therefor impacts more people. A person with Ebola is to sick to carry on as usual.
Yes I trust what this journal says, but as many experts will also say, we still don't know a whole lot about Ebola as it has not been prevalent where medicine is well studied. As an example they have just determined that one strain can be transmitted as an airborne virus which was previously claimed was not possible.
So for me the jury is still out.
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