Apparently Thomas Duncan's doctors did try him on an experimental drug. He must have been fading and the docs getting pretty desperate as a respirator, fluids, dialysis and whatever else they were doing apparently wasn't doing enough. Everyone I know is praying for him and his contacts once he became ill.
Technically, I guess, almost any pathogen can become airborne if it leaves the host and travels through the air and into another host. But non-airborne pathogens have limited flight ability, limited to the velocity and mass of its vehicle while moving through the air as opposed to those that of an aerosolized nature or that can attach to dust motes, particles of pollution, float in air currents and move through the air for considerable distances. Ebola isn't infectious over long distances and can't remain suspended in the air. I heard one epidemiologist say that to become an airborne pathogen, Ebola would have to mutate into a whole different type of virus.
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