> True right now, but what happens if it mutates? There are more than a dozen viruses in the same family as Ebola, each of which have various strains, and none

> True right now, but what happens if it mutates? There are more than a dozen viruses in the same family as Ebola, each of which have various strains, and none of them have airborne spread. Also, this family has been around for over 1k years [0], and any mutation allowing for airborne spread would be heavily selected for, which suggests that it's probably not "easy" (in the sense that it would only require a very small number of mutations) for the virus to acquire this trait. That being said, evolution is messy and probabilistic, so it's certainly possible for this to happen (especially considering the high AIDS prevalence in Africa, which increases the risk of recombination), but the odds of this are so low that I wouldn't worry about it. Another novel coronavirus or influenza strain would probably be my biggest worry. [0]: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9151191/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9151191/