I think they don't quite realize the challenges that the medical teams in Africa are having. The intense poverty is something that we can't, for the most part, even wrap our heads around. The logistics of tracking people down, the lack of communication methods and transportation, the lack of even basic medical treatment, the lack of clean water, sewer systems, paved roads, etc is hard for people to really grasp. Poverty is the real killer.
Until the world understands that these types of viruses will continue to emerge and take hold in not just Africa, but also other poor regions of the world, unless we work to eliminate poverty and provide medical, educational, sanitation, and nutrition assistance to these places. We like in a global world now. What happens in the deepest jungle will eventually effect the whole world. Poverty and population push people deeper into the wilderness, cutting forests, bringing people closer to animals that carry diseases we have no antibodies against. Poverty makes the need for bushmeat to survive. Bushmeat provides opportunity for zoonosis.
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