[HiTech RedNeck]

It’s been clownish as nobody seems to be addressing the problem soberly. How long will the virus survive on a surface in air?

[driftdiver]

Nobody knows for sure. Depends on the temperature and how much UV its exposed too.

[PA Engineer]

The survival of filoviruses in liquids, on solid substrates and in a dynamic aerosol.

Our study has shown that Lake Victoria marburgvirus (MARV) and Zaire ebolavirus (ZEBOV) can survive for long periods in different liquid media and can also be recovered from plastic and glass surfaces at low temperatures for over 3 weeks. The decay rates of ZEBOV and Reston ebolavirus (REBOV) plus MARV within a dynamic aerosol were calculated. ZEBOV and MARV had similar decay rates, whilst REBOV showed significantly better survival within an aerosol.

At 4ºC, the virus becomes stable. Imagine someone is ill on their way to the hospital in January. Say it is a city like Chicago and the infected vomits at a bus stop. The vomit is full of virus and now preserved in the cold.

We are in much worse shape than Africa. Outdoor and transportation fomites in northern urban centers will become a very major disease vector and contact tracing will become ineffectual.

[a fool in paradise]

It’s been clownish as nobody seems to be addressing the problem soberly. How long will the virus survive on a surface in air?

I don't know but it doesn't need a live host.