Is Ebola airborne?

Tuesday, 21 October 2014

I stand by my assessment that the cordon sanitaire approach that we’re seeing to Ebola is likely to prevent worst case human and economic outcomes. If Nigeria can succeed in stamping it out quickly so can most other other nations with functional institutions. But videos such as that below are still unsettling. Is Ebola airborne?

The latest figures:

Evolution_of_the_2014_Ebola_outbreak_in_semiLog_plot.

West_Africa_Ebola_2014_Reported_Cases_per_Week_Total

About the author

David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.