Not to mention that in 1959 there was precious little jet travel.
Pan Am was the first up with the Boeing 707 in fall of 1958, and those flights went to London and Paris, not Africa.
It’s going to be a cruel joke if mass global jet travel proves to be the disease vector that spreads the next great plague.
....Add to that with open borders.
It’s not a cruel joke — it’s reality.
When the Black Death was spread via trading ship, the European populace had no inkling that a deadly infection was being transported to its shores. In the case of the ebola outbreak, no one can claim ignorance regarding the risk. Why are common sense measures to curtail its spread not being taken?