I don’t know which is worse:
The outbreak in the Congo is unrelated to outbreaks in other, nearby, countries. This implies a whole new patent zero and other concerns.
The outbreak in the Congo is related to outbreaks in other, nearby, countries. This implies that containment attempts have at least partly failed.
In either case this isn’t good news for the rest of the world.
That means the Ebola EVD variant is currently spreading across the African roads to the population of African long distance truckers and their prostitutes — “blood born” also means sexually transmitted — to everywhere in Africa.
The poverty of Africa means that local prostitutes do a great deal more anal than vaginal sex due to a lack of contraceptives and in particular condoms.
In a matter of weeks we will be seeing prostitute vector Ebola showing up with village headmen and African government officials across equitorial Black Africa.
The timing of this Congo outbreak fits that sexual mode of transmission.
We have already lost rural equatorial West Africa in Liberia and the Liberian cities are dying.
It is now a question of limiting the damage.
My understanding is the Congo version is what has historically been seen, whereas the other area appears to be a different strain which may have greater potential for spreading... though no one will say airborne officially.