[ansel12]

My impression is that they are saying that it isn’t airborne, but remember that within 3 feet, you could still get some liquid on you from coughing and sneezing, and rub it in your eyes, or such tissue that isn’t your outer skin.

But sharing the same air isn’t a problem.

[PA Engineer]

I posted a link on the Ebola Surveillance Thread. I think it is much worse in a pandemic setting. This is the most definitive study I have found to date:

Link

The virus will survive for long periods as active virus or fomite at <4ºC. We in many ways with winters in the north are far worse than Africa.

Three feet is a guess and conservative to begin with. 90 minute aerosol viral life is a disaster. Add cold temperatures and folmites. We cannot let it into the country.

This is where the dishonest CDC reporting is both political or "crisis reporting." Either they are incompetent or insidious to the core. It doesn't really matter considering their massive failure in our current trial by fire.

[Cvengr]

http://scgnews.com/ebola-what-youre-not-being-told

a nice summary of transmission risks.

If you are in the same room, for an extended period of time, the risk increases for some infected particle lighting on a mucous membrane or in the lungs, or even a microcut or fresh shave.

[DouglasKC]

My impression is that they are saying that it isn’t airborne, but remember that within 3 feet, you could still get some liquid on you from coughing and sneezing, and rub it in your eyes, or such tissue that isn’t your outer skin. But sharing the same air isn’t a problem.

Have you ever ridden in a car with the windows rolled up with two or three other people? That's water vapor...expelled moisture...coming from the lungs of people. With an ebola victim, that moisture is full of ebola virus. I would not want to share air for very long, if at all, without some kind of barrier between my lungs and the expelled body fluids coming from their lungs.