[jjsheridan5]

Certainly:

Taxis, planes and viruses: How deadly Ebola can spread

I raised a hypothetical question on another thread, and will raise it here again, especially for those that think that this Ebola outbreak is obeying the rules outlined in the textbook: if a person entered a communal cab with the flu (or the common cold), on average, how many others would contract the disease? The article doesn't say how many shared the cab ride, but assume 6, for the sake of argument. My guess is that only 2 or 3 would come down with the flu, yet 5 came down with Ebola. I fear the doctor is wrong, and is forgetting that viruses do mutate over time.

[Heartlander]

Something does not make sense - from the article:

Gatherer noted that while Ebola doesn't spread through the air and is not considered "super infectious", cross-border human travel can easily help it on its way. "It's one of the reasons why we get this churn of infections," he said.

The risk of the Ebola virus making its way out of Africa into Europe, Asia or the Americas is extremely low, according to infectious disease specialists, partly due to the severity of the disease and its deadly nature.

Patients are at the most dangerous when Ebola haemorrhagic fever is in its terminal stages, inducing both internal and external bleeding, and profuse vomiting and diarrhoea - all of which contain high concentrations of infectious virus.