Don’t you think there would be a lot more than 700 deaths so far if that were so?
Given the reporting situation in Africa and the tendency of the Africans to hide the dead we really have no idea how many dead there are.
We do know the infection curve appears to be going exponential:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_West_Africa_Ebola_outbreak
Scroll for chart.
21 day incubation, and another, what, 10 to 15 days at a 90 percent mortality?
Based on the reports on HOW MANY are leaving just for treatment, it appears several countries are getting serious about studying it. There seems to be no shortage of foreign citizens of the US and EU countries that need to be ‘brought home’ for treatment.
In Atlanta, especially.
The graph I saw on FR this AM on deaths v identified cases indicates that it is already an exponential function.
This isn’t traditional Ebola.
Let’s see what the death count is in five more days. I predict that reporting out of Africa is going to be much more difficult coming out of this weekend.