<html><head></head><body><div><span data-mailaddress="painlord2k@libero.it" data-contactname="Mirco Romanato" class="clickable"><span title="painlord2k@libero.it">Mirco Romanato</span><span class="detail"> <painlord2k@libero.it></span></span> , 20/10/2014 5:31 PM:<br><blockquote class="mori" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:2px blue solid;padding-left:1ex;">Il 20/10/2014 02:01, spike ha scritto:<br><br>> We are told that any contact with any of the bodily fluids with an<br>> ebola-infected patient can spread infection, including sweat and blood,<br>> both of which are external to the ebola patient. Apparently air<br>> exposure doesn’t kill the virus, at least not immediately. The two<br>> nurses who cared for the Texas ebola patient contracted the virus, even<br>> though both were trained in caring for contagious patients and<br>> hospital-grade hygiene.<br><br>I bet they had not a so contagious virus before.</blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>They would have encountered far more infectious viruses. Measles and chickenpox are an order of magnitude more contagious:</div><div>https://infobeautiful2.s3.amazonaws.com/940_Microbescope.png</div><div><br></div><div>I suspect it was lack of routine. Had it been a TB patient they would have handled it according to protocol. </div><div><br></div><div><br>Anders Sandberg, Future of Humanity Institute Philosophy Faculty of Oxford University</div><div><br></div></body></html>