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How do you get Ebola? Blood and bodily fluids, such as saliva, semen, feces, and vomit but you have to have direct contact. An open wound, unprotected sex, that sort of thing. You can get it from contaminated needles and syringes. That’s why doctors and nurses who treat victims are more at risk. You won’t get Ebola by breathing it in. It’s not spread through air or through water or for the most part, by eating food that’s been contaminated.
Those that handle the meat of wild animals in Africa may be at risk but if you come in contact with blood or bloody fluids of any infected animals, then you may get it and there’s this, you’re not contagious unless showing symptoms. These are the facts of Ebola.
