[Smokin' Joe]

I am sure there is significant pressure to present the image of a nation free of the disease. It was speculated early on that reporting might be suppressed (not saying it is, but might be) in order to avoid short term economic impacts in hopes the disease could be contained.

That has potential to cause much more severe impact later.

Hard to say if Nigeria isn't catching some pressure to keep oil revenue flowing, too.

Expats who provide technical expertise and support (from the US and elsewhere) might not be so anxious to work for a paycheck they may not live to cash.

Many fly in and out of Lagos.

[PJ-Comix]

We know an infected nurse broke quarantine in Lagos and moved to eastern Nigeria.

[Gen.Blather]

I was applying for jobs in places not far removed from the Earth’s anus until Obama announced we’d be pulling out of those places. The sudden and obvious increase in danger is indeed a factor. I can put up with the discomfort in exchange for the money, but getting killed for it, as you point out, changes the equation. (Incidentally, in the following weeks the number of open jobs near the anuses jumped dramatically.)

You couldn’t pay me enough to go to Africa, now or in then next several years.