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Originally Posted by lawll
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not airborne and dies very quickly without a host and is only contagious via body fluids.
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So, there's a very strange amount of "pacifying" misinformation when it comes to Ebola.
This isn't entirely true. Ebola can survive for at least a few hours, sometimes days (depending on environment) without a host. Even on the low end it's more than enough time for you to use some plastic utensils that some other guy just fondled at a fast food restaurant.
It's "unlikely," just like it's unlikely that a nurse taking every precaution in the world against Ebola would contract the virus. But hey, that happened. And due to the long incubation period, we won't really know that there's been a large outbreak until after it's already happened.
There's a low chance that Ebola will affect anyone here. But there is a real threat and people need to be aware of all possibilities.