Thanks for the ping. This is a completely inadequate response, because Marburg can be transmitted before any symptoms appear.
It really is frightening to think how inadequetly prepared the world really is.
Personally I don't think we'd do much better here in the US as we don't think about outbreaks of diseases like these. Can you imagine cordoning off a section of Long Island, NY?
Last week I found myself in the hospital emergency room at 12:30 in the morning. I had thought I had experience a transient ischemic stroke, I had kept enought wits about me to get to the hospital...it took them over 3 hours to get a CAT Scan! The TPA needed to be administered within the first 3 hours to have any effect, then they finally released me at 7:30am. I went straight to my doctor who contacted them and confirmed it was indeed a 'mini stroke.' He, the dr., was furious and explained to me that I had a 50% chance of a major stroke within the first 24-48 hrs. Long story short, if we can't handle something like me with reasonable due care, can you imagine someone strolling in with Marburg? The Dr. wouldn't even expect it...and americans are more mobile than the rest of the world.