Aesop at RaconteurReport is pretty convinced that Africa is still in the throes of a growing Ebola epidemic, and there is no fading out or “leveling off” at all. He says that the reason we’re not hearing anything is because the countries in Africa are deliberately hiding the expansion of the disease, and because Africans in general are not bothering to report to the government anymore because they (apparently) don’t understand that it’s the disease and not the report that is killing them.
Another factor, for sure. There have been reports of families hiding the fact that a family member has ebola, so that they will be able to follow their traditional practices.