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To: RummyChick
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

17 posted on 10/18/2014 7:54:51 AM PDT by palmer (This comment is not approved or cleared by FDA)
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To: palmer

Tell that to the Army. They have it in their 2011 manual.


18 posted on 10/18/2014 7:57:06 AM PDT by RummyChick
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