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    CDC admits droplets from a sneeze could spread Ebola

    New York Post

    Bob Fredericks
    10/29/2014

    Excerpt:

    Ebola is a lot easier to catch than health officials have admitted — and can be contracted by contact with a doorknob contaminated by a sneeze from an infected person an hour or more before, experts told The Post Tuesday.

    “If you are sniffling and sneezing, you produce microorganisms that can get on stuff in a room. If people touch them, they could be” infected, said Dr. Meryl Nass, of the Institute for Public Accuracy in Washington, DC.

    Nass pointed to a poster the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention quietly released on its Web site saying the deadly virus can be spread through “droplets.”

    “Droplet spread happens when germs traveling inside droplets that are coughed or sneezed from a sick person enter the eyes, nose or mouth of another person,” the poster states.

    Nass slammed the contradiction.

    “The CDC said it doesn’t spread at all by air, then Friday they came out with this poster,” she said. “They admit that these particles or droplets may land on objects such as doorknobs and that Ebola can be transmitted that way.”

    Dr. Rossi Hassad, a professor of epidemiology at Mercy College, said droplets could remain active for up to a day.

    “A shorter duration for dry surfaces like a table or doorknob, and longer durations in a moist, damp environment,” Hassad said.

    The CDC did not respond to a request for comment.

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    View the complete article at:

    http://nypost.com/2014/10/29/cdc-adm...-spread-ebola/
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