Viral virulence

[The LightKeeper]

ryan at mbcf.stjude.org whacked the keyboard to produce:

>I expect that Ebola pathology in that host is
>much less rapid and/or pronounced. My guess is that the dramatic pathology of
>Ebola infections in humans is due to its poor adaptation to using humans as
>hosts. If humans are incidental to the natural history of Ebola (that is, if
>Ebola has evolved in a stable relationship with some other host), then this
>virus's limited success in human populations is not a problem for the virus.


Would this explain why the virus seems transmissible via air in
monkeys but not in humans? 

-Lighty