Well, yes and no. It's 97% Zaire Ebola Virus, but different. G-Z-Ebola, and maybe the delta 3% is very significant. .Kind of like men and chimps.
Just discovered this morning, covered in this post. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3188383/posts
CDC sidebar note:
Genetic analysis of the virus indicates that it is closely related (97% identical) to variants of Ebola virus (species Zaire ebolavirus) identified earlier in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Gabon.
IIRC that 3% variance is about the same between humans and primates.
[Just posted this today, which might have got lost in main body of post.]
It might have, but it was not lost on me, that's precisely where I got my info.