[ExI] 23andME - Company issues: privacy

Mirco Romanato painlord2k at libero.it
Mon Oct 20 14:38:27 UTC 2014


Il 19/10/2014 18:13, spike ha scritto:


> that Ebola cannot go airborne:

Airborne it is not the same as transmissible at close range.
To be considered airborne it must stay in the air for a long time and
travel more than 1-2 meters.
To be able to go airborne, Ebola should be able to stay on droplets
smaller than 5 microns or on powders.
Tuberculosis, Measles, etc. are airborne. Pulmonary Plague it is not
(but don't get near coughing patients).

The droplets you see in the photos will fall down in just few minutes
and stay down.

Obviously, if you sit in an airplane, and an Ebola infective person sit
on the chair beside you, there is a pretty chance you will get infected.
But if the infective person do not travel up and down coughing over
other people, they will not be infected. And you will not be able to
infect others before many days.

They made the infected Spanish nurse sit, awaiting transportation, in
the Emergency Department waiting room, with all other patients.
If it was airborne there would be an enormous outbreak in Spain anytime
soon.

Mirco





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