It’s never, in recorded history, undergone as many human to human infections. It’s figuring us out. Only the most efficient genomes at infecting humans will be selected with each transmission. As such it will likely mutate massively before it’s all said and done.
I have wondered privately if the reason all the western medicos have pulled all their people from a particular region of Sierra Leone is a suspicion that if not totally airborne it’s very nearly so in the mutation pool in that particular area.
Just a suspicion.
It doesn’t usually get into cities.
The development in Africa is causing the virus to move swiftly from the hiding places in the jungles to the cities.
In the past it would hit a town and wipe it out. But because of the “isolation” the fire burned out quickly.
The development of Africa and the death released through Ebola is reminiscent of how smallpox ravaged America just prior to the arrival of the Europeans.