You fight an epidemic by ISOLATING IT to the best of your ability AND fighting it where it IS.
ANYTHING LESS is INSANITY.
Does the possibility of, say, 5 or more asymptomatic EVD carriers arriving at the same time in NYC for example, and later becoming symptomatic and testing Ebola-positive and creating a combined contact list of maybe 500-plus people, exceed the CDC and local tracing capabilities and cause an even greater emergency containment responce issue?:
“Eventually, however (if the outbreak in Africa is not brought under control), the United States will experience saturation of its contact-tracing capabilities. Incoming cases will saturate our response, and Ebola cases will eventually fly ‘under the radar’ for one to three incubation periods until the index case can no longer be identified through contact tracing. At this point, if the virus’s effective reproduction number is sufficiently high (>1), the Ebola virus will be very difficult to stop within the U.S”: