By the time someone in a rural environment presents with symptoms, they are likely well on their way to the grave.
The disease, though, generally as a result of those infected by patient zero, may make its way into larger towns, where it usually dies out due to isolation techniques.
Consider, though, in an urban environment versus a rural one that there are surfaces touched by the multitudes which may have been contaminated by a single patient while infectious, yet are subsequently touched by hundreds (or even thousands) daily, each having the potential to infect themselves with the virus by transmitting it to a mucous membrane (mouth, nose, eyes), or directly through a cut or abrasion. Suddenly, the ability to spread the disease escalates significantly.
Time will tell, but this disease may be more easily transmitted in urban terrain than in the bush.
Door handles, stair rails, faucet handles, corners, railings, and counters which could pick up the virus from sweat, sputum, mucous, or saliva, to name a few.
The well known perverted sex practices of American gays and Lesbians(not to mention heterosexuals engaged in frequent adultery and fornication with multiple partners) as well as IV drug users who share needles make them out to be at extreme high risk should ebola carriers come into contact with those “groups”. It is just a matter of time. The verse..”Your sin will find you out” comes to mind.
Still darkness pervades progressive thought so much that should the virus flare in these groups, the politics of the situation will blind them to advocate for what is necessary; that is the extreme quarantining of such groups until the virus runs its course thru those groups..”in the name of civil rights”!