Ebola Reston is/was airborne.
We’ve never been told, to my knowledge, what this strain is that has left Africa. I’m assuming it’s Ebola Zaire, which is the most lethal.
http://cryptome.info/0001/bioweap.htm
Blood samples from the Dallas patient were sent to both the CDC and to the Texas public health lab in Austin, which has a team specially trained to handle high-risk specimens, said Dr. David Lakey, director of the Texas Department of State Health Services.
He said the lab received the blood sample at 9 a.m. and at 1:22 p.m. got the result back showing the sample was positive for Ebola Zaire, the strain that has killed more than 3,000 people in West Africa.
http://www.star-telegram.com/2014/09/30/6162320/cdc-team-mobilizing-to-come-to.html
There was ‘discussion’ when the outbreak began as to which clade the new ‘ebola from guinea’ belonged. The first paper on the subject placed it in its own distinctive grouping, having on 97% sequence similarity to zebola. Subsequent discussion quashed that idea and placed it with zebola as a strain of that.
But 3% could mean any number of different things including transmisibility vectors.
The strain in West Africa was identified as the Zaire strain. See the current Vanity Fair magazine with Robert Downey Jr on the cover—really! Small article re the first tracking of the outbreak before Ebola was identified as the problem.
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/2014/10/ebola-virus-epidemic-containment