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Assessing the Science of Ebola Transmission

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THREE ARTICLES DESCRIBING DETAILS OF THE EBOLA VIRUS AND OTHER VIRUSES.
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Advances in microscopy have allowed scientists like Sriram Subramaniam and colleagues at the National Cancer Institute to look at the workings of tiny viruses. In this case, microscopy was used to illustrate the complex process in which human cells infected with HIV-1, green and blue, are linked to uninfected cells. Credit Illustration by Donald Bliss/N.I.H, from The Journal of Virology/American Society for Microbiology

The research on how the virus spreads is not as ambiguous as some have made it seem

THE ATLANTIC                                                                                                          Oct. 28, 2014

"What it boils down to is not only is there no evidence that Ebola virus spreads between primates by an airborne route, there’s actually evidence it does not...."
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http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/10/clarity-in-ebola-transmission-science/382026/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=pulsenews

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Ebola and the Vast Viral Universe

NEW YORK TIMES                                     Oct. 28, 2012
By Natalie Angier

"Behind the hellish Ebola epidemic ravaging West Africa lies an agent that fittingly embodies the mad contradictions of a nightmare. It is alive yet dead, simple yet complex, mindless yet prophetic, seemingly able to anticipate our every move."
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/28/science/ebola-and-the-vast-viral-universe.html?ref=science

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The 9 Deadliest Viruses on Earth

WASHINGTON POST                                                                               Oct. 28, 2014
from LIVE SCIENCE                                                                                Oct. 23, 2014
By Anne Harding

"But there are other viruses out there that are equally deadly, and some that are even deadlier. Here are the nine worst killers, based on the likelihood that a person will die if they are infected with one of them, the sheer numbers of people they have killed, and whether they represent a growing threat."

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http://www.livescience.com/48386-deadliest-viruses-on-earth.html

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