While the body of your discussion is enlightening, I do not believe you have begun to disprove my hypothesis. The introductory claims above do not seem to be correct, and Ebola seems to be very, very like AIDS, except the rate approach to mortality. I believe quarantine could have been much more effective for AIDS, except for the single reason that we would not reject the squalling of sodomites.
Here's a quick summary behind what I say:
From "TKH Virology Notes: Ebola"(click here):
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Also known as: Green monkey fever
Description. An acute, infectious, hemorrhagic viral fever. . . .
Vector. . . . Secondary spread of the disease is via contact with infected persons or contact with blood, secretions, or excretions of infected persons. However, contact between viremic persons results in infection rates of approximately 10% ---such contact is not an efficient form of viral transmission. Infection via contact during the incubation period is rare. In contrast, nosocomial transmission is extremely dangerous. In all epidemics, nosocomial transmission, via contaminated syringes or needles, was responsible for a significant number of deaths.
In a small number of cases of the Zaire and Sudan strains, patients did not have contact with the blood or body fluids of other viremic patients. In these few cases, it is possible that the patients contracted the virus via aerosol transmission. Although the Zaire and Sudan strains are not usually passed from human to human by aerosol, the Reston strain is transmitted via small-particle aerosol between monkeys and from monkeys to humans. In addition, Ebola Zaire and Marburg virus have been isolated from the alveoli of infected monkeys.
Viruses can persist in injection equipment, multidose medicine vials, or in dried material. The virus can also continue to be shed in the patient's semen for 3 or 4 months after symptoms disappear. In one case, the virus was isolated from the anterior chamber fluid of a uveitis patient.
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(My underline for emphasis)
A 25-day quarantine is not sufficiently long enough. Six months in medically unbroachable facilities would be appropriate, prepaid by the entrant before boarding a US-bound flight carrying US citizens, the quarantine beginning on the aircraft.The plan you suppose is full of holes, and does not account at all of the deliberate transmission of the disease through open borders. Do recall the methods utilized by immigration authorities in the early 1900s.
And that is EXACTLY why it spread. Researchers who have written books on this admit to that. The fact of having multiple sex partners in one night is pretty nuts, and we keep pushing the loose sex horsesh*t whether it be male or female.