I'm not sure if it is dishonesty or normalcy bias. Either way, in previous outbreaks it has been fairly easy to attribute the known cases to eating bushmeat, direct contamination from corpses or the infected or direct contact in a clinical setting. This outbreak is large enough and widespread enough that the cases where those attributions just do not work will become evident.
The looters who died as a reward for their actions--stealing contaminated linens, etc.--should have been the eye-opener.
Yep.