"The day of reckoning may be near. Why do you think we (US) are sending command and control? What the article does not expound on is that if we get to those much larger numbers the current response is not scalable. At some point, probably now already we need to focus on enforcing quarantine between populations that are capable of managing incursions and those that are not, ala epidemic scenario. And with half survive with immunity, we need to prepare for those infected populations once stabilized because those left alive are immune, now possess a potential WMD. "
A thinking man wrote that email.
Medical professionals are early and common victims. Ebola will therefore kill a lot of people who never get ebola -- you need kidney dialysis? Chemotherapy? Surgery for a car accident? Sorry -- clinics and hospitals pretty much closed up because the professionals died or decided to stay away.
And the tertiary effects: Food production and distribution? If ebola makes an impact in the population, then there are fewer workers who can (or are willing) to engage in business-as-usual. Now some regions -- regions with no ebola -- those regions may have food shortages. Or energy shortages.
It spirals out of control and the population crash picks up speed over and over the actual spread of the virus.
And then there is the aspect of war and invasion ...
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse ride together.
I do not see how we contain Ebola at this point...