It's a known transmission mechanism, especially in Africa.
When someone dies, family members gather to wash the body for burial. This and other direct contact mechanisms with the victims of the disease before and after death is the mechanism of transmittal in the populace.
I have already addressed the transmission with the health workers.
So the mechanism is direct contact with a infected person. It is not known to be airborne or even contracted through the respiratory system.
Bodily fluids, plain and simple. And it's not nearly as bad as the flu in that regard, as the respiratory system is not involved.
contact with infected animals (pigs, bats, monkeys)
contact with "droppings" of infected animals
eating any part of an infected animal
touching anything excreted (blood, sweat, urine, fetal matter) by an infected person.
any part of your skin touches any part of an infected persons skin
inhaling the droplets an infected person exhales via sneeze cough.
touching any item an infected person has recently touched.
touching a hard surface that has recently been in contact with anything wore, excreted or touched by an infected person who is dead or nearly dead from Ebola.
I am sure there are other means of Ebola spreading. It appears to me that Ebola is very contagious and could easily spread in a high density US city. I also think things are much worse then we are being told. Only 1500 infected? Only 800+ dead in West Africa? Really? I think way more.