The whole Ebola issue is worth a good laugh. Not because of the possibility that this disease could mutate and spread quickly, but rather that the same people saying how this is a "non-issue" are also the ones telling us that "Global Climate Change" will kill us all in a few years
As far as how easily Ebola spreads, the jury will probably be out for a while. The last big killer disease resulted in the Pandemic of 1918-1919. Believe it or not, scientists are STILL trying to figure out how this relatively weak virus went ballistic:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/02/080218172441.htmAccording to the World Health Organization, Ebola can have a mortality rate as high as 70%. Contrast that to the 1918 flu that had a mortality rate of under 20%:
http://www.influenzavirusnet.com/1918-flu-pandemic/mortality.html And still, over 20 million people died worldwide according to estimates.
Back then the population of the world was about 2 billion. A lot sparser than today's 8 billion. Add in the frequency of travel by jets and we have a whole new dynamic of disease vectoring.
So any thinking person would be incredibly cautious regarding this and similar diseases. But no, that's not what we are seeing. This is a political issue- how this is being handled makes the already weak presidency of Barack Obama look a lot weaker - and even more so, incredibly incompetent. So out of the woodwork come "closet experts" on epidemiology who are in fact apologists. Anything to prop up this failed president and by extension, the inept CDC. Politics over people.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.