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by powertower 4268 days ago
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15588056

> Although they are not naturally transmitted by aerosol, they are highly infectious as respirable particles under laboratory conditions.

I think the issue is to what degree it can get into the fluid that is sneezed out by humans... Once it's in it, the size of the droplet does not matter to how viable the virus is - it's deadly if inhaled in by someone else.