This is an old commentary (2014) on aerosols and Ebola. Close range transmission is complex when dealing with contaminated fluids (vomit, diarrhea) which is laden with high viral loads. Could droplets and smaller particles contribute in very close proximity? Maybe
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(I guess another way to describe it would be to be really bad at human-to-human transmission and becoming better at it, and being agnostic about the prior path—then no conclusion. Anyway, that was on that minor question, not commenting on anything else!).
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Oh zeynep. You never stop being very wrong.
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Love a sociologist arguing with a virologist about fine points of… *checks notes* virology
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but on that minor point): Fouchier et al. (2006) do describe their work as "our experiments showed that A/H5N1 virus can acquire a capacity for airborne transmission" and "without reassortment in any intermediate host." Wouldn't that qualify?