Ebola Virus Can Become Airborne- UN

Anthony Branbury, the United Nations, UN, Ebola
chief, has warned about the possible mutation of the
deadly Ebola Virus Disease, EVD.
Speaking to Telegraph on Thursday, he revealed that
the killer disease could mutate and become airborne;
a development he feared would make the epidemic
much harder to curb.
Anthony Branbury, the United Nations Ebola chief
Branbury explained that the longer the virus moves
around in its human hosts in the virulent melting pot
that is West Africa, the more chances increase that it
could mutate.

“It is a nightmare scenario that it could become
airborne, and unlikely, but it can’t be ruled out,”
Branbury said.
Meanwhile, the UN Ebola chief gave this mouth
opening revelation before America recorded its first
case of Ebola in Dallas, Texas.
However, William Schaffner, a Vanderbilt University
infectious diseases expert in a response to the earlier
tension that Ebola could go airborne, told Scientific
American that there were already several problems
associating with Ebola and urged people not to make
things worse.

“We have so many problems with Ebola, let’s not
make another one that, of course, is theoretically
possible but is pretty way down on the list of likely
issues. Everything that is happening now can easily
be comprehensively explained by person-to-person
spread via body contact. We don’t have to invoke
anything else,” Schaffner said.
According to the World Health Organisatio, WHO, the
recent Ebola outbreak is the largest in history. A new
figure released by the Centers for Disease Control
showed that the disease had infected about 7,000
people and had so far claimed the lives of about
3,300 people.
The virus is contracted through body fluids; a
development that made isolation of patients very
imperative and the most reliable way of curb its
spread.

It was reported that infectious disease experts had
earlier expressed fears of the deadly virus going
airborne before but researchers after carefully
examining the possibility concluded that though it is
physically possible, but such a mutation is highly
unlikely to happen.
Meanwhile, Lagos State Governor, Babatunde
Fashola, has revealed the true heroes of the fight
against the deadly Ebola Virus Disease EVD, in
Nigeria.
It would be recalled that on October 2, 2014, it was
reported that following the current panic in America
over the reported outbreak of the deadly Ebola Virus
Disease EVD, in Dallas, Texas , the United States
government has sent medical experts to Nigeria to
study how the country was able to quickly halt the
spread of EVD.