That woman was feeling sick when she took that cab. She was likely beyond the incubation period and likely symptomatic. Ebola can survive on surfaces for a couple of days. The other passengers likely contracted Ebola from contaminated surfaces in the cab.
I’m not disputing your theory/suspicions. I’m just looking at alternatives.
It’s hard to say to what extent she was presenting. That all five picked it up sets off alarm bells, for sure. That’s pretty efficient.
I would be delighted to be wrong.
What is irrefutable is that this is NOT Zaire. The incubation period alone is all the evidence one requires to establish that as a fact. This is a mutated strain of Ebola. Reston provided evidence that Ebola could mutate such that aerosolization of the virus could transmit the disease. In fact, Reston was so efficient that it migrated through the air ducts and killed all the monkeys from a Friday evening to a Monday morning. They all died within a weekend. It was Sunday night that the CDC carted off the dead monkeys and shut down the facility, and Preston marveled at the CDC’s dumb luck in all of that.