re: Who else is freaked out by this ebola thing?

I read Richard Preston's The Hot Zone back in high school so that was at least a decade ago, but IIRC there actually is an airborne strain of the virus, Ebola Reston. It was named after the research facility in Reston, Virginia where it was discovered. It killed monkeys in this facility that were separated by cages and across the room from one another, thus leading the investigators to believe it was airborne. It was eventually discovered that this particular form of Ebola hasn't yet made the jump to humans- we're immune to it. But it wouldn't be an enormous stretch to assume that it would eventually be capable of making that jump. If it does we could all be in some deep, deep trouble.