re: The Dallas Ebola patient has died

The monkeys were observed to get sick from each other from across the room, in cages. So yes, with Ebola RESTON, it COULD be airborne. But, this is not Ebola Reston, it's a different kind.

It travels through fluids. And the virus is easily caught, but difficult to spread. It's difficult to spread because of the incubation period and being able to isolate people right away that have been in contact, before they have symptoms.

BUT, it is VERY easy to catch. Have you wondered why they wear full body suits with air filters? I think sometimes they are even positively pressured so nothing can get in. Patients with it are bleeding, vomiting blood, etc. One little microscopic speck that gets on your eye, or lips, or whatever can get in you and it could be game over after that. It takes a very little number of individual ebola viruses to get infected. When biosafety level for HIV is a 2 and Ebola is a 4, the highest.

If it were me, I wouldn't go in there with a single piece of skin showing, full body suit.