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cm2187yesterday at 6:37 PM3 repliesview on HN

No it's not a big deal. Ebola is deadly if you catch it but it is not very contagious at all. You need to be in contact with someone's fluids basically. It can't go very far.


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JumpCrisscrossyesterday at 8:56 PM

> Ebola is deadly if you catch it but it is not very contagious at all

This isn't straight Ebolavirus (Zaire), but this thing [1]. We don't have enough data yet to confirm it spreads like Ebola among humans.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundibugyo_ebolavirus

Retricyesterday at 7:16 PM

If it was that simple Ebola wouldn’t ever spread and nobody would bother trying to contain it. Instead it’s relatively easy to contain but still requires active effort.

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EGregyesterday at 7:19 PM

Ebola can mutate and this would no longer be true

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