Two years ago (SN: 12/15/12, p. 12) an Ebola study stoked notions of a terror transmissible by air when pigs passed the virus to monkeys. Tina Hesman Saey reported in “Airborne transmission of Ebola unlikely” (SN: 9/6/14, p. 7), though, that the phenomenon may be more thriller than threat.
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