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I vaguely remember reading recently that that had actually never happened to any virus that wasn't airborne transmitted to begin with.



Well, there is this: "While all Ebola virus species have displayed the ability to be spread through airborne particles (aerosols) under research conditions, this type of spread has not been documented among humans in a real-world setting, such as a hospital or household."

Cite: http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvrd/spb/mnpages/dispages/Fact_She...

I could've sworn that Ebola-Reston was airborne-transmissible in real-world settings (albeit amongst non-human primates and swine), but I can't find a cite for that; I could just be misremembering things from Richard Preston's The Hot Zone.


Ebola has been theorized to be airborne by scientists at the National Microbiology laboratory in Winnipeg.

Cite from 2012: http://www.nature.com/srep/2012/121115/srep00811/full/srep00...


Theorized but not conclusively shown, as the "Discussion" section in that study indicates. Transmission may have occurred due to large droplets or fomites contacting the mucosal membranes of the monkeys.


I thought there was quite a bit of controversy with regards to whether Reston was airborne.




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