Top infectious disease researcher says ‘risk is real’ for Ebola to become airborne

Sunday, October 5, 2014
By Paul Martin

by: David Gutierrez
NaturalNews.com
Sunday, October 05, 2014

There is a very real risk that Ebola could become an airborne disease, according to a recent New York Times editorial by Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota.

“The… possibility is one that virologists are loath to discuss openly but are definitely considering in private: that an Ebola virus could mutate to become transmissible through the air,” he wrote.

Although virologists and public health officials have been discussing such a possibility privately, Osterholm said, they have been reluctant to say anything publicly for fear of inducing hysteria.

“They don’t want to be accused of screaming ‘Fire!’ in a crowded theater — as I’m sure some will accuse me of doing,” Osterholm wrote. “But the risk is real, and until we consider it, the world will not be prepared to do what is necessary to end the epidemic.”

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