In an email interview, Professor Peter Hotez told Timesnow.in, “Ebola is not easily spread especially in the early stages, so someone walking in a shopping mall or store is unlikely to spread Ebola. This is very different from influenza or measles. People contract Ebola caring for sick and dying Ebola patients when the virus load goes up. That’s why hospital and healthcare workers, nurses and doctors, or respiratory technicians inadvertently touching the secretions of an Ebola patient are at greatest risk. For that reason I don’t see Ebola spreading outside Central and East Africa, except you might have individual Ebola cases appearing on other continents.”
