This was poorly conceived and poorly conducted, both. The major reason for the lack of transmission was ignorance about the timeline of the disease course and the fact that particular virus was largely shed prior to the onset of symptoms, but once symptoms appeared the victim is no longer infectious, so attempting to deliberately cause a transmission at that point would be futile as was observed in this study. So it is not ruling out a transmissible disease at all, it is simply inadequate science because of the lack of information to design the study properly.
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