Quite right.
It’s been working away in Africa, under conditions incredibly suitable to transmission, and has still not quite got to 10,000 cases in 10 months.
Nigeria has apparently managed to stop an outbreak in its tracks.
The taxi driver who drove Duncan and the pregnant girl around is giving interviews.
The guys who do the mass burials of the corpses are on strike for higher pay instead of being dead.
These are not the characteristics of a wildly contagious disease. If you get it, it’s horrible and deadly. But it is perfectly obvious it just doesn’t spread that easily. Or it already would have and there would be tens of millions of cases, not <10,000.
Last year it was SARS and bird flu that was going to kill tens of millions.
Good points.
Global Ebola outbreak deaths exceed 4,000 - WHO
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-29577175
“The latest figures show there have been 4,024 confirmed or suspected deaths in the worst-affected West African nations of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
In total, there have been 8,399 confirmed or suspected cases, mostly in West Africa.”
Does this mean that 8,399 have it and of those 4,024 have died resulting in a 48% fatality rate?
Dr. Aileen Marty tells Fusion what she saw fighting Ebola in Nigeria
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3214129/posts
The Ebola outbreak continues to spiral out of control. Near the epicenter of the epidemic in West Africa, more than 3,400 people have died and more than 7,000 people have been infected with the virus. Officials are scrambling to contain the outbreak at its source and keep it from spreading.