>>So, if EBOLA is not transmitted by air, why all these suits?Because the health workers constantly come into contact with secretions and liquids and solid waste from the infected, including when the suits are removed hurriedly or incorrectly. In addition, many of the workers are wearing inferior, cobbled together "hazmat" suits, not the nearly foolproof ones we have here (foolproof as long as proper procedures are followed).
Many people confuse coughed droplets (which are infectious) with "airborne"; that's not what airborne means in epidemiology. Airborne means infectious after drifting in the air for a substantial time and without the enclosing water envelope. The often-cited Reston strain may or may have not developed an airborne-facilitating mutation -- not clear. Sloppy procedure took place in the lab and alternate explanations for the infection of primates in adjacent rooms exist even according to the lab workers.
Do we know how long the virus is active on a dead body?