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Biotech / Medical : Ebola Outbreak 2014 - News, Updates and Related Investments

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To: f-layer who wrote (13)	7/31/2014 4:22:28 PM
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I thought the additional insights offered in the article below are......insightful: Jagatic says Ebola "is not a very contagious disease and the reason it's being spread in [West Africa] is because of cultural and behavioural practices." A Doctors Without Borders team disinfects Finda Marie Kamano’s home in Gueckedou, Guinea, in April. The day before, tests confirmed she had Ebola. She died the next day. (Sylvain Cherkaoui/MSF) As he explains, the body is most infectious at the time of death, "which is when they're cleaning the body for the funeral and then people at the funeral touch the body, and then, while grieving, they'll touch their faces, they'll touch their mouths and noses” — the mucous membranes of the body from where the virus is transmitted.

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