[UCANSEE2]

Please define "not airborne"

Currently the word 'airborne' is being misused much like the word 'evolution'.

A more descriptive term is 'aerosolized'.

Ebola is airborne (currently) when it travels in body fluids ejected from the host. (sweating, sneezing, coughing). It can only survive about 4 hours and can't travel far.

To be classified as 'aerosolized' it has to be in small enough particles to float on the air , and does not need bodily fluids to 'carry' it.

[bayliving]

Thank you for clearing that up for me!

[PA Engineer]

Ebola is airborne (currently) when it travels in body fluids ejected from the host. (sweating, sneezing, coughing). It can only survive about 4 hours and can't travel far.

I posted this on a different thread and it applies here. The virus is very stable at 4ºC and I was considering what would happen if an infected person vomits outdoors, on a sidewalk, during winter in some urban setting.

I couldn't help myself while thinking of it and gaming it. Imagine someone coming by cleaning the sidewalk with a snowblower. It would take on an entire different meaning of airborne distribution.

Sounds gross, but simply we cannot allow the virus to reach northern urban centers during the winter months. Fomites will be much more friendlier here than in Africa

Our patient 0 was vomiting on the grass of the apartment building before he was taken away by ambulance.

They have to pull those 13,500 visas now.

Even Dallas can get very cold during the winter months.