For Pete’s sake. CIDRAP publishes an article that is basically an advertisement for PAPRs, and that gets picked up and spread around as scientific “evidence” that Ebola is an airborne disease.
It is not.
Why is this think-tank regarded as more of an expert on Ebola than the people who actually do the research on Ebola, or those who actually travel to Africa to deal with outbreaks?
I know that people are fixated on this idea that Ebola MUST be airborne. But it is not. There has NEVER been a case of Ebola that could be traced to aerosol transmission.
A virus is a physical structure, subject to the same rules of physics that control visible objects. Ebola cannot tolerate drying out—airborne viruses like influenza can. Ebola cannot tolerate exposure to UV, which aerosols are particularly exposed to when they float in the air. Ebola does not infect respiratory system cells, so isn’t even present in the fluids that naturally aerosolize from humans. And Ebola is many times larger than viruses that can aerosolize.
Please cite the studies that positively with certainty exclude Ebola from entering the lung cells via breathing