[RummyChick]

Army Manual on a thread I posted indicates it’s airborne but it depends on your definition. Aerosol transmission is airborne to me.

[palmer]

Airborne is not the same as aerosolized. In the scientific literature an aerosolized virus has to be mainly bronchial and able to survive outside of droplets (i.e. dry). Ebola does neither. Presumably the presence of Ebola in saliva would allow it to be spread by sneezes:

Of particular concern is the frequent presence of EBOV in saliva early during the course of disease, where it could be transmitted to others through intimate contact and from sharing food, especially given the custom, in many parts of Africa, of eating with the hands from a common plate.
http://jid.oxfordjournals.org/content/196/Supplement_2/S142.full

But in general, the science does not support airborne much less aerosol transmission:

"However, in modern hospitals with disposable needles and knowledge of basic hygiene and barrier nursing techniques, the virus rarely spreads on a large scale. Airborne transmission between monkeys was demonstrated during the outbreak of Reston Ebola virus in Virginia, but there is limited evidence of airborne transmission in any human epidemics "
https://microbewiki.kenyon.edu/index.php/Infection_Mechanism_of_Genus_Ebolavirus

[wrench]

“Army Manual on a thread I posted indicates it’s airborne but it depends on your definition. Aerosol transmission is airborne to me.”

Exactly!

We aren’t taking a med school test on definitions here, just trying to understand what our risk is. “If you are sitting nexr to someone on a bus, you might infect them” = “airborne” to the lay person.

[free_life]

There sure is a lot of differing op-ions on whether it is a air borne transmission of the virus. The virus can be in droplets in the air coming from an infected person sneezing or coughing but how about just exhaling, is the virus present in the exhaled gases?

Exhaled air has a relative humidity of 100% because of water diffusing across the moist surface of breathing passages and alveoli. Our exhaled gases are 5% water vapor.