This disease could be a new human tragedy in the world. Unfortunately, no treatment way are available so finding a new effective  vaccine that would be covered all of serotypes maybe considered as valued remained approach.

Thanks for your replies. I do not know how a long transport can negatively affect the patients themselves, but it may be reasonable to establish some first class equipment and highly paid personel to the region affected. I am not in any position anyhow related to do any viral research, but maybe it would be helpful with these large numbers of infected to also get relatively large numbers of survivors. This may be a new base for future research to understand why they survived. A simple (perhaps too simple) aspect could be just to use some blood extracts (like antibodies) to try for newly infected people. It may be better to invest now a lot of money to keep (and fight) the disease in those african regions than to risk that any contaminated material, or closeby animals, rats, mice, flies, cockroaches, ants, whatever to transport the virus out of a container area.

Dear Robert,

Ebola could be a very danger and unknown infectious disease. It could be transmitted very easy and kill many sustainable hosts in humans.

Please see site as follows:

http://af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFKBN0FS10V20140723

Sierra Leone's chief Ebola doctor contracts the virus.

I believe that it needs more research and investigation in near future.

No Vaccine and no treatment!

It seems a new human tragedy is coming now!

When I remember the whole regulation of "gene technology" a few decades ago, years after almost no regulation, just to clone some genes into some bacterial strains... and even the least dangerous cloning was consideres a "potential" danger (which of course was reasonable to be on the safe site for a society), and then see, that one of the most dangerous virus is transferred anywhere... what if such a flight would had a critical damage... I may exaggerate and the virus spread comes down to zero as every year the new influenza substrains - honestly I never understood why an exponentially growing curve goes down to zero with all the traffic. I probably have a substantial mistake in my thinking...

Replikins Ltd. today released new data on changes in the gene structure of the Ebola virus. Before the current outbreaks, the mean Ebola Reston gene Replikin Count (number of Replikins per 100 amino acids) between 1995 and 2002 was 1.1; the mean Replikin Count increased twofold in 2010, threefold in 2012, and sixteen-fold in 2013, thus predicting the current outbreaks in humans.

In the past, this technology has been shown to be able to predict outbreaks (1). For example, increases in gene Replikin Counts in H1N1 influenza, found in 2008, predicted the 2009 H1N1 Pandemic. The Replikin Count has also predicted outbreaks of lethal H5N1.

Using this technology, a synthetic Replikins vaccine, produced in five days, has been shown to be effective against H5N1 influenza (2). A similar synthetic anti-Ebola candidate vaccine is being made.

- See more at: http://www.vaccinenation.org/2014/08/04/ebola-virus-gene-replikin-count-increased-sixteen-fold-2013-advance-current-outbreaks/?utm_campaign=Vaccine%20Nation%20PR%2004082014.html&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua#sthash.GZXn8aL5.1YMNhSjN.dpuf

Now with Spain transporting another patient in a new continent, it looks like many other countries will follow. Of course, everyone doing that believes to be able to handle the risks and technology - Ok, it may be way to late to isolate the virus and its spread, so it may not matter anymore to use all rules of hygiene and microbiology. I am sure most countries have different standards - and, for example, even not that deadly viruses like hepatitits B were quite common a few decades ago within medical personell, especially medical technicians handling blood samples, but only decreased by vaccination. So it seems to be just a statistical question of time to get the Ebola virus spread around the world, since every country seems to be confident to handle and oversee the virus - like nuclear energy in the last decades (Tchernobyl/Europe, Harrisbourgh/North America, Japan/Asia - with no end storage of nuclear waste in most countries... is it just the same wrong thinking and planning of nuclear waste and virus waste?).

It will be interesting to follow how the hospitals will deal with any new patients with just common symptoms, and how the physicians and nurses will be protected.

I should point out that I am not a virologist - and that I never really understood why all the big epidemias, like flue, SARS usually come to an end... I may just see it too mathematically...