With the base disease, things aren’t so bad. If it mutates, naturally or artificially, into an airborne pathogen, thing will get really ugly.
Please read the large part in the middle of this link. It’s a conversation between Frank Black and Peter Watts from the last episode of the second season of the old ‘90s show, “Millennium,”
Watts is telling Black about how a Marburg variant was leaked from a soviet bio-weapons lab, and now threatens the world.
http://www.tv.com/m/shows/millennium/the-time-is-now-2-25909/trivia/
Scary stuff.