Something wrong with the Cat, a posting just disappeared into the wild blue yonder.

I bloody well had better be pretty much on the right track, I was paid for 18 years as one of Europe's crisis managers expected to be able to deal with absolutely anything.

The fault here lies with the politicians. Who cut the Ebola research program? Obama, driven to it by the Republicans. Who just threatened not to give the UK a hearing if we left the EU in matters like the boot up the bum we just gave them on this? Baroso, outgoing President of the Commission, implying that the body will censor the UK's diplomatic mail in clear breach not only of the Warsaw Convention on Diplomacy but also abrogating the entire democratic system in favour of a bunch of unelected bureaucrats. What's a politician? Hubris on a stick.

On the technical front, you're right, except that the vacuum room is actually negative pressure. There are a number of such facilities in the main Banking centres (New York, London, Frankfurt, Tokyo) - the banks' securities depositary vaults. In addition, it should be possible to convert most ICUs in a day or so.