re: I'm Concerned about the Potential "Mushrooming" Effect with Ebola

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That's my biggest concern. The sheer number of people coming into contact with infected people, and the possibility that these numbers could end up growing exponentially. I'm reluctant to use the term "law of averages," but this is what bothers me the most.

Are we already in the process of experiencing this?

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Unless terrorists get involved, I don't expect anything remotely like a mushrooming effect.

These cases will appear individually, and sporadically until appropriate travel quarantines and/or bans are implemented. Insofar as those outbreaks here are totally avoidable, they are also totally inexcusable. Everyone of them will endanger healthcare workers, unnecessarily so. There may be a few secondary infections outside of healthcare, but those will be infrequent.

It is a bad bug, but with controllable epidemiology.