Freeky Flier (what a great handle).
Since you are a microbiologist - and better qualified than everyone else in the world at that (since here is no consensus on the airbourne vector yet), I am relieved by your post.
I can now make my trips without worry of infection by the hawking, gobbing masses that come out of the infection centers of this disease.
I am relieved that I do not have to worry about the spitting and coughing that goes on all around me everyday and the fact that a chinese handkerchief is rarer than a Egyptian transistor. Or that the gobs of slime on every horizontal surface are not a worry.
Terry Nation wrote a play that aired on British TV series in the 70's called the "Survivors". The first episode rings so true to just now - I only hope that the rest doesn't happen.
DG