[EternalHope]

You might want to check out this thread on the AvianFluTalk forum:

Ebola airborne stability

I have not checked out the source materials cited, although I was already familiar with some of it. The part I am familiar with checks out. However, this is really explosive "stuff", and it ALL needs to check out before it should be considered credible.

I'm at work and can't spend that much more time on it right now, but here's a boiled down version of what it says:

1. The U.S. Army believes Ebola is just as stable as influenza A in the air.
2. The U.S. Army believes spread through the air is most optimal in the winter.

My comment (not in the article): Ebola typically does not result in as much coughing as influenza. Likewise, at least early in the course of the disease, the virus might not be present in the lungs. Hence it is less likely to be ejected into the air.

Thoughts?

[Covenantor]

Since EVD is present in saliva, ie nose mouth, sneezing or coughing will carry it on expulsion.

[Smokin' Joe]

It is pretty well known the virus is more stable in colder temperatures: heat and UV break it down. This is a concern where I live as temps below 39F are common, if not the rule for the winter, which here runs from November through April at a minimum. Days are notably shorter here too with sunlight six hours different from the summer maximum, so, less UV, lower incidence angle, and longer fomite viability outside.

Whether as stable as Influenza A out in the air, while I cannot prove it is not, it seems less likely because I think there would have been substantially more infected in areas like the West Point slum in Monrovia during the lockdown. That however would not deter me from using the very best equipment available and assuming that the most stringent protocols possible are the safest. None are without risk, because removing the PPE can be a source of infection.

All bets are off with a malicious patient.