There are MANY, MANY stories about Ebola patients being turned away from Ebola care centers because the centers are simply too full to take any more people. When these people are turned away they remain in the community and continue to infect people.
To point out what should be obvious:
The medical system has already been overwhelmed. Whatever impact medical care may have previously had in slowing down the spread of Ebola is now becoming increasingly irrelevant. We will soon see how fast it can spread without medical care to slow it down.
In other words, the exponential increase we are already seeing is likely to accelerate even further.
Any response with any hope of stopping this monster will need to consider how long the response will take to implement, and how big the problem will have become during that time (huge).
I don’t see any indication that a response large enough to make any difference in what is now certain to be a huge outbreak will happen.
Obama’s recent comments, in particular, are too little too late even if he actually does something (which is doubtful).
If this is not stopped in west Africa it will spread. It will be in the slums of Lagos within months at the latest. Eventually it will be in the slums of Cairo, Mumbai, and Mexico City. You can bet it will not stop there.
So...
Don’t know if this has been linked.
US Air Marshall quarantined after attack with syringe in Nigeria.
http://abc13.com/news/us-air-marshal-in-quarantine-after-syringe-attack-in-nigeria/300003/
....”I don’t see any indication that a response large enough to make any difference in what is now certain to be a huge outbreak will happen”.....
Too many country leaderships do not want to make the contributions which could make a difference anymore now then they did prior when it could have been contained.....and until there is a “huge” outpouring of medical teams and staff it will continue to spread wider and wider.
You cannot “contain” this with people who have “supersititions” and the backwardness of thinking that so many there have. Regardless of how the medical staff present the facts, the people often reject.....’believing’ that the medical people simply are “siphoning their blood” prevents containing this.
Once this hits western counties hard enough is when you’ll see the response needed...and the costs will be astounding.