You are only infectious during illness and it requires contact with fluids. It's exasperated by local funeral rituals where people interact with the dead body and get infected.

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mentalgear 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I wonder if you have sources on this? I heard that this is a new variant that has a much longer incubation time. A longer time until symptoms appear means it will spread much quicker and wider (that was also the issue with Covid that had a incubation time of 5 - 8 days).

	▲	ShinyLeftPad 32 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		This variant may have longer incubation time but you are almost not infectious without symptoms. The more symptomatic you become, the more you spread. This is in contrast to COVID or some flus where you are most infectious in the incubation period.
	▲	christkv an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Sure https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4456362/ it outlines history and spread. incubation period is long but there is no asymptomatic transmission that is known.

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zulux 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

"relatives slept in the same room as the body, stayed beside it continuously, or had direct physical contact during overnight mourning."

I’ll do my best to avoid the overnight cuddle vigil with an Ebola corpse.

	▲	bananamogul 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		This makes the recent burning of ebola clinic tents by angry relatives make more sense. https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/ebola-tent-fire-congo-9.721000...

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r721 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The "coughing up blood" symptom can cause you to come into contact with fluids involuntarily.

	▲	christkv an hour ago \| parent [-]
		sure but's not flu or covid in ability to spread.

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pixelpoet 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Exacerbated*, however it surely is exasperating how poorly this is being handled.

	▲	christkv an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Do you know how big this area is and how difficult it is?

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SecretDreams 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

So your claim is this won't be an issue for the rest of the world? What are the underlying implications from your statement?

	▲	christkv 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		That it does not spread that easily and that its current spread is more a combination of factors in the specific area. War, hunger, refugees, culture and lack of education. It’s to say it’s hard for it to land and expand. Once you have symptoms the patient is also very quickly immobilized reducing the spread further.

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illusive4080 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

0% chance this spreads rapidly in the first world.