Well, the situation in West Africa is getting no better. Bodies are being dumped in the streets now, where all that Ebola-tainted bodily fluids can seep around on streets and into groundwater, sewage systems, etc. And the infrastructure in these parts of the world aren't the cleanest.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/...0G51VF20140805
And now this just in....they're testing a patient who traveled to West Africa for possible exposure to Ebola at Mt. Sinai hospital in New York City. A former biomedical coworker of mine works at Bronx Hospital Center not far from it. They're saying the possibility that said patient has Ebola is "unlikely".
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/05/he...says.html?_r=0
Yeah, maybe, but I'm not banking on that until the test results come out. Yes, I know, most modern hospitals these days have special isolation rooms, air-scrubbing filters and strict infection-control procedures (I work in one myself), but...New York City?! Talk about ground zero, sheesh.
Well, to quote Ken Alibek "The most effective bioweapons are those for which there is no vaccine, no cure." Simple, true, yet scary as f**k.