My familial sources with the NIH and CDC makes my awareness of the situation in Liberia only slightly better than Janie who has a realistic handle on the current out of control scourge of Ebola.

The suggestions by mg are but some of the tools that used to be the strengths of WHO and the CDC but since the take over by megalomaniac financiers the budgets of the CDC has been cut three times over and is currently weaker than FEMA before Katrina. Who has also suffered an economic collapse since member countries have not paid their dues since all the money has been concentrated among a very greedy few.

Money desperately needed by the CDC is now spent by our Congress to investigate the CDC instead of funding them.

Liberia does not have the resources to even put people in quarantine.
The next sudden surge of Ebola is expected when the countries of Nigeria and Senegal experience contact infections which has not yet begun despite examples of a returning traveler dying in Nigeria.

Believe me the budget concerns I mentioned are paramount in both the runaway early infectious spread of Ebola and next waging a global response which is currently economically impossible. Not to put too sharp an economic point on this historic outbreak, but Wall St. took more than schools, libraries, food pantries, homes and main street business. They took lives beyond measure by shrinking the CDC to less than a third of their budget. It has made for a perfect storm of an inability to respond effectively. The non chalance by Liberia to respond in dangerous.

The accurate numbers regarding mortality rates range from 60 to 70 percent and only rises to 90% in cultures that traditionally wash the dead.

10 years ago I wrote about Ebola out breaks and bio warfare right here on Mudcat along with other unsavory future risks. I was told to stop it. Futurist discussions quickly broke down when I inartfully used the word prophesize instead of deduce or reasonably deduce. Still Ebola is a subject like nuclear weapons. It is about when, not if.
Most of my favorite disaster discussions back then such as economic collapse, corporate pathology, fresh water doomed by gas drilling and of course disease, today have their own Nat Geo TV series.

In short Ebola is officially out of control and is months away from a burn out of all infectious people. Short of a terrorist intentionally bringing Ebola to the US we stand a good chance of keeping our shores safe. The only animals to transfer Ebola to man are a few primates and bats. Bats have had a recent die off in the DC area from a fungus epidemic or synthetic nicotine pesticide. Bats to the north were first effected.

The worst enemy to our response at this point is Congress. Obama could be the executive order hero to the world except for Republicans0 if he responds quickly.