77. What are the implications if Ebola is airborne?

After being infected with the Ebola virus, Nurse Mayinga spent two days in the city of Kinshasa where she had face-to-face contact with at least thirty-seven people. If the Ebola virus had been airborne, Mayinga could have become a vector for the spread of the disease throughout the entire city. Once a large percentage of the population was infected through airborne transmission, it would only be a matter of time before the virus spread to other countries through plane travel.