[gbrown]

If you'd followed the outbreak as you seem to claim, you will have seen that they succeeded to a large extent in Guinea, but the subsequent spread to other areas overwhelmed their capacity quickly, and that efforts to contain the spread were complicated by having to work with three (unprepared and weak) governments. Oh, did I mention that Guinea did try closing the borders and was unable to?

I'm writing a dissertation on infectious disease spread, and your comments strike me as uninformed and harmful. The time for massive action is now, and pipe dreams of impossible (and downright inhuman) international quarantine cordons only confuse the issue.