@ Prophet2520
Can you not read where they say,
“Droplet spread happens when germs traveling inside droplets that are coughed or sneezed from a sick person enter the eyes, nose, or mouth of another person. Droplets travel short distances, less than 3 feet (1 meter) from one person to another.”
“A person might also get infected by touching a surface or object that has germs on it and then touching their mouth or nose.”
“Clean and disinfect commonly touched surfaces like doorknobs, faucet handles, and toys, since the Ebola virus may live on surfaces for up to several hours.”
How is that NOT airborne?
Definition of Airborne from Dictionary.com
airborne
[air-bawrn, -bohrn]
Examples
Word Origin
adjective
1. carried by the air, as pollen or dust.
2. in flight; aloft: The plane was airborne by six o’clock.
3. Military. (of ground forces) carried in airplanes or gliders: airborne infantry.
4. Aeronautics. (of an aircraft) supported entirely by the atmosphere; flying.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/airborne?s=t
Your dictionary daffynition means bupkis. We are saying the virus can infect others by flying through the air, no touchy-feely needed with the patient.
What part of that do YOU not understand?
Just to help you, we will forever forward call it “Snot borne”, that make you happy?
Enlightened1, if you notice on your definition there are qualifications to the definitions like “ Military. (of ground forces)”, and “Aeronautics. (of an aircraft)”, what is missing is “Epidemiology. (of the spread of disease)”
The kind of definition of airborne some people are espousing here is completely illegitimate scientifically. By that broad definition absolutely every disease is airborne and therefore all spread with the same risk. You could take an AIDS patient and blow him up with a hand grenade, and when his blood splatters on you through the air 20 ft. away now AIDS is no longer sexually transmitted it is airborne. That is ridiculous. It is still a disease transmitted by fluids, not air, even if you sling the fluids through the air.
IF EBOLA WAS AIRBORNE MANY ON DUNCANS PLANE WOULD HAVE IT AND 70 PEOPLE AT THE TEXAS HOSPITAL WOULD HAVE IT!!!!