Is the new strain more contagious ? I always understood it was very difficult to spread from human to human ?
This strain is not highly contagious except in close contact fortunately but its still a dangerous disease
The main ways of transmission are through family members, doctors treating the patients and funerals
Ebola is different from the flu or measles in that being in the same room as an infected person will not necessarily cause transmission. A person has to come in close contact with the virus — specifically through blood, vomit, or excrement — to contract EVD. Most of the transmissions, said Griffin, happen in hospitals where the disease is being treated, or in the home of an infected person.
https://www.yahoo.com/health/ebola-outbreak-how-worried-should-you-be-93130718497.htmlAccording the WHO, Ebola has infected 1,100 people and killed 660 so far in the current West African outbreak. The lower-than-normal 60-percent fatality rate for this outbreak has been attributed to early identification and treatment of the symptoms (such as administering a saline solution to prevent dehydration)
That said its very difficult to cure when someone catches it so the mortality rate is very high.
