Ebola

Well, we've sequenced the strain (i.e. here and here).There are slight differences in the strain but nothing that remarkable - it's about 97% identical. The transfers in the first world are probably best accounted for by sloppy practice rather than changes in the virus.Edited by Mr Jack, : No reason given.

There is no record of any virus, ever, mutating to become capable of airborne transmission where it wasn't before. I realise you were making a rhetorical point here but I think it's worth pointing out how unlikely this scenario is. Ebola is not relatively easy to transmit; it transmits comparatively poorly - with a r₀ of around 2. This is why all previous Ebola outbreaks burned out pretty rapidly.

You remove both at once. Cross your arms so that you palms face, then you pinch a region towards the wrist of the glove and pull, both gloves end up together and inside-out. This is standard procedure in biological labs since we routinely end up with gloves contaminated with something.Double gloving is a back-up although I'd worry that - like wearing two condoms - it might increase the risk of breakages.Never worked in a hazard suit so I'm not sure how you remove those - however, I'd be confident that there is a known and well understood technique for safe removal. The problem is that the staff involved are not experienced and trained for this kind of thing.

The transmission reports you note are not airborne transmission; they're transmission by droplets of body fluids. That might seem like a pedantic quibble but it really is a fundamentally different thing. Body fluids can be transmitted short distances as droplets - of courser they can - but since Ebola does not cause coughing or sneezing it's relatively unlikely to spread far by this means and this means, in any case, doesn't allow the virus to rapidly circulate in shared airspaces in the manner of the cold and flu viruses spread by aerosols.As for the ferret experiments; this is mutation of existing mechanisms of airborne transmission for a new host not de novo transition to airborne transmission.It is, of course, technically possible that Ebola can mutate in this way but it's not any more likely than rhinovirus mutating to cause bleeding from every orifice and subsequent death.