[Inyo-Mono]

the current outbreak will eventually “run out of fuel” as infected people either die or become immune.

That's what happened in Europe in the 1500s during the plagues there, after half the population was dead. That plague, the Black Death was very much like Ebola.

[RegulatorCountry]

The last great outbreak of bubonic plague was in London, 1667. Over the previous three centuries they’d blamed rats, cats, witches and foul miasmas but finally got around to dogs at that point. Never was any of those, it was fleas.