“....Virus expert Charles L. Bailey, who in 1989 helped the American government tackle an outbreak of Ebola among rhesus monkeys being used for research, told the LA Times: ‘We know for a fact that the virus occurs in sputum and no one has ever done a study [disproving that] coughing or sneezing is a viable means of transmitting.....”
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-ebola-questions-20141007-story.html#page=1
“.....Dr. C.J. Peters, who battled a 1989 outbreak of the virus among research monkeys housed in Virginia and who later led the CDC’s most far-reaching study of Ebola’s transmissibility in humans, said he would not rule out the possibility that it spreads through the air in tight quarters.
“We just don’t have the data to exclude it,” said Peters, who continues to research viral diseases at the University of Texas in Galveston........”
New Jersey Customs Agent: We’re Not Prepared for Ebola
“.....Dr. C.J. Peters, who battled a 1989 outbreak of the virus among research monkeys housed in Virginia and who later led the CDC’s most far-reaching study of Ebola’s transmissibility in humans, said he would not rule out the possibility that it spreads through the air in tight quarters.
“We just don’t have the data to exclude it,” said Peters, who continues to research viral diseases at the University of Texas in Galveston........”
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American Airlines.... American Airlines - are you there?
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-ebola-questions-20141007-story.html#page=1
“...spreads through the air in tight quarters.”
Best to avoid tight quarters.
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. We do not have the data=we do not know. Always err on the side of caution with things that can kill you...