Ebola apocalypse - and how US 'preppers' plan to survive
MONDAY 20 OCTOBER 2014
In Monrovia they get their Ebola information from makeshift chalkboards. In the US, survivalists are all over the internet, advising readers how to live through the forthcoming apocalypse.
In Monrovia they get their Ebola information from makeshift chalkboards. In the US, survivalists are all over the internet, advising readers how to live through the forthcoming apocalypse.
First, let's be clear. Ebola is spread when someone comes into direct contact - through broken skin or mucous membranes - with infected blood or body fluids. It's also transmitted by contact with contaminated surfaces and objects, although the risk of transmission is low.
But Ebola is not an airborne infection - although droplets from an infected person's cough or sneeze could in theory pass on the virus.
The World Health Organisation says previous outbreaks revealed no instances of airborne infection.
