[mojito]

There are several extant known varieties of Ebola.

This is a new strain, but one that bears many similarities with the “Zaire” and “Gabon” forms of the virus, but has some fundamental differences:

“The EBOV in samples obtained from three patients
was completely sequenced with the use of conventional...techniques....”

“The three sequences, each 18,959 nucleotides in
length, were identical with the exception of a few
polymorphisms....”

“The Guinean EBOV strain showed 97% identity to EBOV strains from the Democratic Republic of Congo and Gabon.”

[no-to-illegals]

Thanks Mojito. Because of you, learned something new today.

[steve86]

but has some fundamental differences

I disagree with the use of the term "fundamental" in that sentence. Not warranted.