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Five Facts You Need to Know About the Ebola Virus

Dr. Roberto Posada explains a person can only become infected with the disease from direct contact with an Ebola patient.

  • New York Parenting
  • (November 11, 2014)

A day doesn't go by without hearing about another potential case of the Ebola virus breaking out in our country. The virus, which can cause people to bleed out of every orifice before dying is, of course, scary. The risk of an Ebola virus epidemic occurring here in the United States is very remote, says Dr. Roberto Posada, Pediatric Infectious Disease specialist at the Kravis Children's Hospital at Mount Sinai. "This particular virus is not very contagious, or in other words, cannot be easily spread from person to person. Unlike other illnesses, such as the measles, chickenpox, or flu, that are transmitted through the air, direct contact with secretions or body fluids (e.g. touching vomit, urine, blood, or other bodily fluids) from a patient ill with Ebola is required for transmission of the disease." Learn more.

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