[palmer]

In fact, the smartest bugs will be the most likely to make it here, the airborne ones.

Liberians will make it here while incubating. There is no reason to expect smarter or dumber viruses to be in those incubators. There is a bit of selection in cases of Liberians with a few bucks to travel versus bush meat eating, corpse washing cultists, but not a lot. What I expect is more of the same old deadly, but spreads with difficulty kind of Ebola showing up here.

[annieokie]

Smuggled BUSH MEAT IN AMERICA: Newsmax Aug.2014

http://www.newsweek.com/2014/08/29/smuggled-bushmeat-ebolas-back-door-america-265668.html?piano_t=1

Also a 2009 article many more on Google

http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/IntoTheWild/bushmeat-africa-sold-open-market-us/story?id=9312518