Ebola outbreak: US experts to head to West Africa

[cronus]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-28631777

Ebola outbreak: US experts to head to West Africa

The US has announced plans to send at least 50 public health experts to West Africa to help fight the worst-ever outbreak of Ebola.

A senior US health official said the outbreak was out of control but insisted it could be stopped.

Ebola has claimed 728 lives in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone this year. The current mortality rate is about 55%.

Meanwhile, an American doctor infected with the virus is improving in hospital after returning to the US from Liberia.

Dr Kent Brantly arrived at a military base in Georgia on Saturday before being driven to Emory University Hospital.

(continued, safety in numbers? all volunteers?)

[JimC]

A betting firm should offer odds on what number of the 50 will die...

I'll put 10 bucks on 4...

[cronus]

A betting firm should offer odds on what number of the 50 will die...

I'll put 10 bucks on 4...

They got to do something, anything, to prove they can beat this before it brings the stock markets down. Closing borders and dropping multi-nationalism for six months is a possibility to defeat this coming nightmare but that would mean questioning the conventional socio-economic wisdom of the day. So, instead America sends a 50+ strong human cluster into the middle of a novel expansive Ebola outbreak and maybe half a million or fifty million Americans will die as a result. Folly and a absolute one that will be recalled later if humans survive to learn the lesson?