>>10993940I don't think it could spread worldwide, unless the virus mutates. Basically it's not that infectious, it can only really spread in countries with collapsed or disfunctional health systems where monitoring is not properly in place and where the basics of infection control in health structures are not followed.
I'm not medical, but I think the hardest part is just accessing the patient. The protective equipment (yellow suits, mask, double layer of gloves etc) is super hot, so you can't stay inside the high risk zone (where the patients are) for more than about 90 minutes. After that you have sweat too much, you are too dehydrated, and its dangerous to stay more. its a real hassle to get you decontaminated and out if you faint. Normally for the people who just started we don't let them go in more than 45 minutes. The longest I did was a little over 2 hours. Anyway all this equipment makes it difficult to talk to and treat the patient.
The epidemic is currently not at all well controlled, this is partly the fault of the congolese government, who blocks many things, causes problems, playing a political game with the lives of their citizens in order to try to get more funding (personal opinion). Its also in part the fault of the humanitarian response, which is not well organised, many actors doing bullshit interventions to be able to say "hey we doo ebola, give us money", and very few doing the more expensive but actually useful interventions (like decontamination of homes and health facilities, construction and operation of ebola treatment centres).
I didn't try monkey meat... thats a disease vector for ebola. It would be pretty stupid to eat it during an active outbreak - kindof like going down and drinking from a dirty river during a cholera outbreak.
