New report claims Government officials have not tested whether or not Ebola can be spread through the air

  We have been given conflicting reports on how Ebola can and cannot be spread: Barack Obama has told us that we cannot catch it from sitting next to someone on the subway while others have said there is a chance the virus could mutate into an airborne virus.

  Dr. David Sanders, a Purdue University biology professor, is one who claims the virus could be airborne. Here is what he had to say:

Dr. David Sanders, a Purdue University biology professor who “has been studying the virus since 2003 – specifically how this particular Zaire strain of Ebola enters human cells,” told The Indy  Channel (rtv6 ABC) that the Ebola virus “can enter the lung from the airway side” and is “primed to have respiratory transmission.”

“We need to be taking this into consideration,” Sanders said. “What if? This is not a crazy, ‘What if?’ This is not a wild, ‘What if?'”

  Others have said this is not the case:

“It’s a virus that doesn’t spread through the air, and that we do know how to control,” CDC Director Tom Friedan recently said during a press briefing. “We do know how to stop it.”

As the Dallas Morning News noted, a CDC poster also states, “You can’t get Ebola through air.”

  However the CDC’s website claims it can be transmitted through coughing and sneezing:

“Although coughing and sneezing are not common symptoms of Ebola, if a symptomatic patient with Ebola coughs or sneezes on someone, and saliva or mucus come into contact with that person’s eyes, nose or mouth, these fluids may transmit the disease,” the website says.

  So why the conflicting stories and what is the truth? The truth is we do not know what the truth is because nobody has decided it is important enough to study.

According to a Pittsburgh Tribune-Review report, “in August, researchers in West Africa, Europe and the United States sequenced the genomes of Ebola virus isolated from dozens of patients and found it acquired mutations as it spread,” but “they did not test whether those genetic changes affect its ability to infect and survive.”

Charles Bailey, executive director of the National Center of Biodefense and Infectious Diseases at George Mason University, told the outlet, “Is a mutation capable of making it airborne transmissible? Nobody knows.” He also reportedly “said that…  concentrated aerosols of Ebola have shown the ability to infect” in experiments with monkeys.

“That experiment hasn’t been done yet,” Bailey said. “If there was no concern about aerosol transmission, then why are people wearing masks? There’s no absolutes.”

  Meanwhile our borders remain open and at least ten recent illegal immigrants have tested positive for TB. This really gives you a warm and fuzzy feeling, doesn’t it…