Scientists studying the latest outbreak of Ebola have discovered that the new strain in Uganda may be airborne. An experiement placed eight monkeys seperated by a cage with a pig that had been infected with Ebola Zaire nearby. After a couple of days, the monkeys had contracted the disease with the only transmission path being via the pig itself. It had been thought that the virus was present in the wild in its natural reservoir, the fruit bat.
A similar scenario was played out in the film "Outbreak" with Dustin Hoffman, read more here on the BBC News site...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-20341423
No comments:
Post a Comment