It's not all cut and dried and put away. And the "fears" which were actually ALERTS that should have formed a desire for PREPAREDNESS were not unfounded!
NPR - Jan. 15, 2015
Prediction: All Predictions About Ebola Are Unpredictable
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.Early on officials at the World Health Organization predicted that Ebola would be contained at only a few hundred cases.
A few months later the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was predicting up to 1.4 million cases by January 20, 2015 in Sierra Leone and Liberia alone. That calculation turned out to be wildly inflated. As of this week, WHO has counted roughly 21,000 cases.
It wasn't just the CDC that got it wrong. Back in August, before the outbreak really began to pick up steam, the chief scientist at Britain's Department for International Development
said the worst of the crisis appeared to have passed in Guinea. After his declaration, the incidence of Ebola in Guinea would increase nearly fivefold from roughly 30 cases a week in early August to more than 150 cases a week in early December.
Researchers have also had a hard time guessing where the virus will pop up next
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Prediction: All Predictions About Ebola Are Unpredictable : Goats and Soda : NPR
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