Ebola can be transfered in human breath and a n95 mask won't stop it.

http://www.doomandbloom.net/airborne-ebola/





I’ve always felt that the issue of airborne transmission was more a question of semantics than anything else. Ebola is well known to be transmittable by inhalation. Droplets of blood, vomit, mucus, saliva, and other fluids spewed into the air by a patient and then inhaled by another can certainly transmit the virus. Therefore, ebola can be caught through the air. The question is: Can you get it by simply breathing the air in the room and airplane where an ebola patient is present.




The answer is still “probably not likely”, but the CIDRAP report changes that to “probably not likely, but possible”.

One thing I have pondered the last few days...

We all know that a single Ebola virion is incredibly small, but they are not expelled by themselves, I wouldn't think. They are probably embedded in microscopic droplets of saliva, which are thousands of times larger.

People a lot smarter than I have analyzed the potential of the N95 mask, but are they considering the pore size of the masks against Ebola, or the droplets?

It would probably be 10,000 times higher chance of airborne infection if the infected person sneezes as compared to normal breathing. That's just a SWAG on my part, though.

I actually wrote the CDC a letter about the n95 mask two days ago

That's been bothering me