Ebola-Infected Health Worker Took Flight from Cleveland to Dallas 2 Days Ago

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Ebola isn't spread in a respiratory manner. Unless he took some bodily fluids and rubbed them into a mucus membrane/cut of another person, no need for more fear-mongering.

Not quite as simple as that.

The infected patient coughs and a spray of droplets lands on a handle or arm-rest. The next passenger puts his hand on the arm-rest and then eats a packet of peanuts, thus transferring one person bodily fluids into a second person's bodily fluids.

To be clear, this was Cleveland, TX, NOT Cleveland, OH.

Correction, it WAS Cleveland, OH.

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