Whether this Congo out break is local Zaire strain Ebola or from West Africa, we have to remember Ebola is a blood born disease.
That means the Ebola EVD variant is currently spreading across the African roads to the population of African long distance truckers and their prostitutes — “blood born” also means sexually transmitted — to everywhere in Africa.
The poverty of Africa means that local prostitutes do a great deal more anal than vaginal sex due to a lack of contraceptives and in particular condoms.
In a matter of weeks we will be seeing prostitute vector Ebola showing up with village headmen and African government officials across equitorial Black Africa.
The timing of this Congo outbreak fits that sexual mode of transmission via long distance trucker.
We have already lost rural equatorial West Africa in Liberia and the Liberian cities are dying.
It is now a question of limiting the damage.
That is going to be problematical, because about the only way to do that is to restrict movement. Beyond sealing borders with troops, and cordoning off areas, that will be tough to do--and even then, people will get through. It only takes one, early, asymptomatic to start another hotspot--they get sick when they get where they are going.
We're already seeing this affect air travel, with sick people on planes causing entire passenger compliments to be isolated until it can be determined whether or not the ill person had Ebola or was simply airsick.
The economic effects may drive things for a while, but failure to stop the disease from spreading more will cause even more serious economic problems later on.
With those problems come interrupted food supplies, lack of medical supplies (already a problem), and fuel, to name just a few things.
At that point those who die as an indirect result of the disease may outnumber those who die from it.