It turns out its not actually all that infectious either. It's just very, very hard to sustain not having contact with infectious fluid for very long.

And then it's game over, low survival rate. Which makes it scary but not very dangerous.

I would bet the deadliness of Ebola has been overstated (at least by a little, probably by a lot). Like any infection, many people who get it are probably asymptomatic, and until recently the vast majority of people tested for it were most definitely symptomatic. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/15/ebola-study-fin...