Ebola crisis: Air travel is low risk, says WHO

Kenya, as a major transport hub in Africa, is on high alert to prevent the spread of the deadly virus 

The risk of transmission of Ebola during air travel remains low, says the World Health Organization (WHO).

Unlike infections such as influenza, Ebola was not airborne, it said.
As a consequence, Kenya Airways has rejected pressure to suspend its flights to the Ebola-hit states of West Africa where more than 1,000 people have died of the virus this year.
Meanwhile, two people have died in Nigeria after drinking a salt solution rumoured to prevent Ebola infection.
The BBC's Ishaq Khalid in Nigeria says text messages began circulating in Nigeria towards the end of last week recommending that people drink and bath in a salt solution as a way to stop getting the virus, for which there is no cure or vaccine.
                                                                            Those who had contact with the Liberian government employee who died have been isolated in Lagos
Despite the health minister scotching the rumour, many people have been admitted into hospital after drinking salt water.
Dr Joseph Lumba, the director of public health in the central Nigerian state of Benue, told the BBC that two patients had died in Makurdi city hospital on Wednesday.
But he also said such admissions were now lower following an intensive public campaign to dispel the salt myth.