He`s saying that the present studies show that the tiniest droplets of, lets say a sneeze of cough, do not pose as great a danger in the hot and humid environment of Equatorial Africa as the virus will quickly go inactive due to environmental stresses, but, as the USAMRIID study showed, lower the temps and relative humidity and the virus has a much longer survivability outside the body.
Now for the virus embedded in it`s droplet which is floating thru the air, this opens the window of infectious opportunity. Someone sneezes in a cold and dry space, like a subway, and that droplet, with it`s cold preserved Ebola virus, floats around for extended periods of time and should be capable of causing infection.
Thank you. The CDC had to admit in the Congressional hearings that within a 3’ radius an Ebola victim could infect others. Although it’s not called airborne as that has another meaning, it is from sneezing, coughing, and other close things from ‘breath’.
The doctors also had to admit that the reason the airplanes were being scrubbed was that Ebola can live on a dry surface for hours. So a sneeze, cough particles can land on a surface like seats, windows, floor, and trays for hours, meaning a next flight could still be infected without the cleaning.
Point was not missed.