How People Catch Ebola — And How They Don’t

It’s confusing. You hear that Ebola victim Thomas Eric Duncan was so contagious that two Dallas nurses caring for him in protective gear caught the virus. But then you hear, more recently, that apparently no one else around Duncan became infected — not even the inner circle of people who lived with him.

At the same time, some people are making the argument that for so many nurses and West Africans to have caught Ebola, it must have gone "airborne." WBUR's Sacha Pfeiffer gets the facts.

Carey Goldberg, co-host of WBUR's CommonHealth blog. She tweets @commonhealth.

Elke Mühlberger, Associate Professor of Microbiology and Director of NEIDL Institute's Biomolecule Production Core, Boston University School of Medicine

CommonHealth: Reality Check: How People Catch Ebola, And How They Don’t