I think I read that this is the Zaire strain and I'm pretty sure they've seen it, I think its a combo of sloppy medical practices, lack of facilities to properly sanitize and cultural beliefs of the countries its prevalent in. The incubation period is crazy long and in my mind if the flu virus and cold virus are considered airborne through droplets then by that logic if droplets containing ebola can transfer via sneeze or cough then why shouldn't it be considered airborne as well just maybe the droplets need to be larger but hey, I've seen someone sneeze and those droplets would be plenty large enough to infect people standing around downwind etc. I've seen that happen on a soccer field, LOL it was kind of gross and funny at the same time but if ebola was around and I saw some **** like that I'd prob freak out.
Cold & influenza virus can live & infect someone even without the droplet. So, a surface that is dry may still contain viable infectious cold & flu virus whereas the Ebola virus can't.
You are right though, just about any contact with a bodily fluid can get you sick... even if it is a sneeze that goes downwind quite a ways. Gross!