Ebola can be much more safely dealt with in developed countries than in the under-developed parts of Africa where it comes from. It's not much consolation for the 90% of patients who die after contracting Ebola, but the rest of the population can easily be protected by quarantines and containment.
Now, if Ebola mutated in two specific ways, becoming contagious during the incubation phase and becoming easier to transmit coughing/breathing in the resulting aerosol, we could all be in a great deal of trouble.
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