[Kackikat]

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.

[nomad]

But it`s the cold factor I`m interested in. Imagine if the virus survives far better in a cold climate. That sneeze, and it`s also found in sputum, now becomes a means of spreading the virus to anything it contacts. Hours or days (what, even weeks?) later, a person contacts that cold preserved droplet and then rubs their eye, or snacks on a fast-food item without washing their hands.