Ebola seems to reside in bats. Bats go everywhere in West Africa...they get into homes, restaurants, even hospitals. The virus is in the guano.
Monkeys come into contact with it, but I see no evidence that they transmit the disease to man in the same form they got it from the bats. So it’s in the bats. Just as many other diseases are. Bats hang out in caves, other animals go into caves, including men, for all sorts of reasons, one might be salt.
But don’t conflict the animal strains found in monkeys, with it’s parent virus, Eblola Zaire which affects humans and is the cause of the ebola outbreaks in Africa in man only.
It does not affect the respiratory system in humans. The morphed Reston strain does that only in animals. And it’s not around right now.It’s only in labs..so you can’t legitimately attribute the animal characteristics to the human virus.
I understand your point and the distinction between the two.
But the point I make without being an alarmist is that Ebola is a very bad communicator of virus because it kills its host too fast thereby limiting its spread.
But, it is a virus job to replicate itself and it has several methods to do that. One of them (the most dangerous) is re-assortment where it exchanges its genetic material with whatever virus are in the host body.
So an influenza may get more like Ebola or God forbid an Ebola may get more like influenza in which case we are screwed, blued and tatooed.