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Department of Defense and the Department of Health and Human Services, will conduct Ebola hazard modeling to gain a better understanding of the potential risk for airborne transmission of Ebola virus and how Ebola Virus may impact health workers.

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Department of Defense and the Department of Health and Human Services, will use these data to conduct Ebola hazard modeling and gain a better understanding of the potential risk for airborne transmission of Ebola virus and how Ebola Virus may impact health workers.

Natural outbreaks of the Ebola virus, while severe, are typically isolated and usually affect no more than a few hundred people at a time. However, from 2014-2016, infections from Ebola  caused more than 11,000 deaths in West Africa.

 Ebola patients have been reported in the United States, due to infected african refugees and travelers from West Africa that had unknowingly harbored and incubated Ebola while en-route to the United States .

“Ebola can be both a national security and public health concern,” explained Lloyd Hough, who leads S&T’s Hazard Awareness and Characterization Technology Center. “We’re looking forward to applying these methods to better characterize the risks associated with Ebola virus, and are hopeful that others can benefit from these techniques as well.”

“Our ability to detect Ebola virus in air samples at levels that are ten-fold lower than what was possible with previous methods, will enable us to provide a better understanding of the aerosol hazard posed by this virus,” said Mike Schuit, an investigator in the Aerobiology group at NBACC.