[TWhiteBear]

My understanding has been that Ebola was transmitted via body fluid, and while often fatal, was difficult to spread widely.
This report seems to indicate that Ebola has become airborne.
Like when bubonic plague, which it transmitted via bites, becomes pneumonic plague, or airborne, like the Black Death.
TWB

[angry elephant]

Naw, it just means that most federal employees exchange a lot of weird bodily fluids.

[MarMema]

Not airborne by classification but droplet precautions are three feet of distance, and it is present in SWEAT!!!

That plane had to be loaded with it. It can live for several days in dried material.

This is an incredible disaster in the making - I cannot see anything but divine intervention stopping this from getting out of Africa.

[exDemMom]

This report seems to indicate that Ebola has become airborne.

It became airborne only in the sense that the Liberian-American victim was flying in an airplane when he became symptomatic.

This particular Ebola is not as deadly as other strains. It is only 60% fatal... Ebola can be 90% fatal.

In the event that Ebola becomes more easily transmissible, its fatality will probably drop. (Lethality and transmissibility have an inverse relationship.) One species of Ebola, Ebola Reston, may be transmitted through the air, but it is not known to cause symptomatic disease in humans. It has been found in pigs and monkeys.

[redgolum]

With the recent infection of two doctors, there is some concern that the virus is different than the other human strains.

There is a monkey Ebola that wiped out a bunch of monkeys in Virginia that is airborne.