Ebola panic is setting in and not before time. Here’s a linkfest (updated from Zero Hedge):
- Second Ebola patient to arrive in U.S. on Tuesday
- Saudi Arabia Tests Man Suspected of Having Ebola
- Philippines monitoring 15 Filipinos from West Africa for Ebola
- Emirates, the world’s largest airline by international traffic, is scrapping West African route in response to the deadly Ebola outbreak
- British Airways cancels West African routes
- Liberia orders Ebola victims’ bodies to be cremated
- U.S. govt played role in drug given to aid workers
- Results from blood test of Ebola suspect held at Mt Sinai expected in 24 to 48 hours
- Doctors say NY patient unlikely to have Ebola
- Experimental Ebola drug made from tobacco used to treat two infected Americans
- Saudi Arabia Bans Haj Pilgrims From Ebola Hit Countries
- World Bank pledges $200m to fight Ebola
- Ebola has infected public discourse with a new xenophobia
- Development banks, U.S. increase support for Ebola-hit countries
The latest chart is not pretty:
I think we can safely say that we are now exponential. And some more charts for context:
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It still appears to be the case that this is not an airborne virus and so should be containable once West Africa is shut in. There is an experimental drug as well that appears to be effective. God help the poor souls of West Africa but the best the world can do is shut it down and crop-dust the place with the new drug.
The Australian government should have a blanket ban on all travel to and from the effected countries if not a part of the health effort.
