| Compartmentalization is key to stopping an epidemic. 1.) Quarantine health workers caring for ebola patients in high risk setting (contact to patient, infectious material) like a tour of duty in the military: you take the assignment and move into combined quarantine & work, no family contact, no contact to general population. after your tour ends you stay in post-action quarantine until your incubation period has passed and you get the all clear. Very important: taking are of an ebola victim even in 1st world top tier medical facilities is - as shown by the cases which have developed in america and europe - still a high risk operation. Anyone willing to knowingly take that risk is brave. Imposing a quarantine on them still is the sane thing to do to curb secondary infections from the care givers to their families and the general population. there is no place for talking down care providers on tv or media that they "breached protocol", e.g. they did something wrong and they are to blame. Just find out what went wrong, publish it, correct it. Help the victim. no blaming. There would be no need for panic since you quarantine the heros giving care to the ebola victims thus stopping tertiar infections to get R_0 (spread of infection) down. 2.)
research if ebola survivors carry an immunity to ebola. If they do, they are the most useful group at the frontline of care. Train the survivors and let them (with reduced risk to themselves) help. 3.) Anyone with contact to a victim into quarantine, not let them stay in the house in the rooms where the ebola victim lived. Extract them to proper facility. Desinfect the places where the victim stayed. 4.)
get a Vaccine 5.) get a treatment |