11:00 Dose of Ebolology: How Can We Make This Problem Go Away?

Put simply, we send our expertise, money, and labor to West Africa and we help stop the outbreak at its source. Though many of us would love to see this done altruistically, the reality is that altruism and self-serving have the exact same mechanism here. I'll share a link to a very interesting paper (hat tip to Karla Feeser) that gives mathematical parameters to the continued spread and reintroduction of cases all over the world IF the situations in Liberia, Sierra LEone, and Ghana are not contained. This is very simple: if you do not want to see more Ebola cases in the West, throw you voice, money, and support behind stemming it in Africa. Look at the (lack of) spread in the US and Europe, despite airlifted patients. We know how to solve this problem. Let's go do it.

http://www.mobs-lab.org/ebola.html

http://www.who.int/csr/resources/publications/ebola/response-roadmap/en/