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Spreading through water droplets( or body-fluid droplets if you prefer) and being airborne is rather different.
By close contact, they did not mean that you get the disease by simply being near the carrier, but that the carrier has a chance to infect you through coughing, sneezing or coating you with droplets containing viruses from their hands( which most probably has touched their noses or mouths).
Left alone, the virus dies within 2-3 hours in the open air. This is from memory though, so I may be off a bit on this one.
Air conditioners assist the virus by circulating the droplet that the virus is in to other areas through the vents. This is not true airborne-transmittable though; for that to be accurate, the virus has to be able to survive in the open air( without the droplet) and travel long enough to victims beyond the sneezing range. Powers that be forbid that this is the case though.
[ 04-02-2003, 11:41 AM: Message edited by: Dundee Slaytern ]
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