Infectious Disease Experts Argue: ‘Ebola Virus Could Be an Aerosol-Transmissable Disease’
We believe there is scientific and epidemiologic evidence that Ebola virus has the potential to be transmitted via infectious aerosol particles both near and at a distance from infected patients, which means that healthcare workers should be wearing respirators, not facemasks,” Brousseau and Jones stated in a guest commentary published in September by the University of Minnesota’s Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP).
Unlike HIV, which “is primarily a bloodborne pathogen with low probability for transmission via aerosols,” the Ebola virus, on the other hand, is a broader-acting and more non-specific pathogen that can impede the proper functioning of macrophages [white blood cells] and dendritic cells—immune response cells located throughout the epithelium [skin and mucous membranes
”Epithelial tissues are found throughout the body, including in the respiratory tract. Ebola prevents these cells from carrying out their antiviral functions but does not interfere with the initial inflammatory response, which attracts additional cells to the infection site. The latter contribute to further dissemination of the virus and similar adverse consequences far beyond the initial infection site.”
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