Actually, Ebola Reston is the only strain that we know has gone airborne, but it only infected monkeys (quickly, actually, and completely - killed them all.)
Zaire ran via fluids. It burned itself out for the most part. The case was pretty well documented in ‘The Hot Zone’ by Richard Preston.
This is why Reston scared the bejeebers out of the CDC at the time. It happened in a suburb of DC.
I think this new strain goes in one of two ways that make this a more dangerous strain:
1. Via parasites (lice, mosquitoes, bedbugs)
2. Aerosol
On top of that, I think its contagious somewhere inside the ‘incubation’ period, and can be transmitted prior to the onset of symptoms.
It’s the only way to explain how all those people died from contact with the patient that boarded that communal cab. No way in this life they would have let her board if she was presenting symptoms. Not a chance. All five riders died.
Captain Jenks is out of the bag.
(40,000 men and women every day)
(40,000 men and women every day)
(Don’t fear the reaper)
(Baby take my hand)
(Don’t fear the reaper)
That woman was feeling sick when she took that cab. She was likely beyond the incubation period and likely symptomatic. Ebola can survive on surfaces for a couple of days. The other passengers likely contracted Ebola from contaminated surfaces in the cab.
I’m not disputing your theory/suspicions. I’m just looking at alternatives.
Dont you mean Captain Trips?