Here is the study, in case anyone wants to read it.
Some things to point out as I peruse it. First, ZEBOV is Ebola Zaire - a different phenotype than what we're currently dealing with. Ebola Sudan is much less virulent and has been shown to be difficult - if next to impossible to recover from surfaces in the same manner in which the test was applied, and was therefore disqualified from the study. That's an important thing to understand. Ebola Sudan isn't necessarily what we have now either, it appears we might have a new phenotype. But this strain has closer virulence to Sudan.
But let's stick with ZEBOV. The study clearly states that ZEBOV could be recovered from cellular structure when suspended in
liquid - not on surface contact - for up to 46 days. Essentially they prepared a solution meant for live cultures and wanted to see how long it would survive in this culture absent the body keeping it alive. Unless people are leaving vials of test tubes out there for others to pick up and drink or douse themselves with - this part of the study is completely and totally irrelevant for any discussion regarding day to day transmission.
On to hard surfaces - the time for retrieval on hard surfaces according to the study is much less - just over 14 days. Again, this is ZEBOV, not SEBOV, but that's fine, let's continue.
In the first test, ZEBOV could not be recovered from any substrate at any time. Metal substrate yielded no recovery at any time in any experiment. On glass or plastic, ZEBOV (and Marburg) could be recovered from tissue culture that had been preserved on the substance for examination. This is
quite different than someone sneezing or coughing on a window out in the open. In fact, it's not even in the same solar system of likelihood.
To close, the fact that the virus can be recovered through experimentation does not yield it's infective ability per se, but obvious caution is warranted.
Let's just make sure we understand what the study showed, and not just follow with what Natural News has said. That site has been the origination of a number of questionable medical articles over the years.