In West Africa, Ebola is currently spreading through taxi cabs. [1] Infected patients enter the cab and then inadvertently contaminate surfaces such as door handles, seats and seatbelts. Minutes or hours later, an innocent victim enters the same cab and touches those same surfaces, acquiring the Ebola virus on their own fingers and hands. If this person then touches their own eye, nose, mouth or food, they also become infected with Ebola.
Ebola can also spread through the air over short distances by riding on aerosols. One laboratory experiment proved that Ebola could spread from one group of animals to another, even though the animals were physically separated and could not touch each other.
"In 2012, a team of Canadian researchers proved that Ebola Zaire, the same virus that is causing the West Africa outbreak, could be transmitted by the respiratory route from pigs to monkeys, both of whose lungs are very similar to those of humans."
- Michael T. Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, printed in the New York Times on Sep. 11, 2014
This proves that Ebola can spread through the air, yet most official sources continue to lie to the public and claim Ebola cannot spread through the air. That disinformation will actually contribute to the spread of the pandemic and may cost many lives.
It also shows how "official sources" can behave so irresponsibly in a pandemic, deliberately lying to the public in a way that may get some people killed.
"Ebola has turned survivors into human booby traps, unexploded ordinance - touch and you die."