Our opportunity to "contain" ebola has already passed, and the news of yesterday and today is just chock full of failure after failure of government, medical people, and businesses -- all of them making exactly the wrong decisions, and doing the most stupid things in the face of this epidemic.
The doubling time for ebola in Africa has been consistent at about one month over the past six months.
The doubling time in the USA is going to be two or three days, if we are lucky. Half the population could be infected by January.
That was just a guess, but here's the projection with 104 in the initial outbreak, a doubling time of one week:
01-Jan-15 – Infected: 103,695,185 Dead: 62,217,111