My understanding is that there is no evidence of easy airborne transmission of the Ebola strain in question.
If someone with Ebola symptoms sneezed on you or onto a surface you touch (and you the them wipe your eyes or mouth) then you may get infected but back to reality, the low reported infection rate within Nigeria indicates only occasional sporadic infection at a global level.
To keep Ebola so contained, "boots on the ground" are required to ensure an adequate response in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea ..... however a quick response model is yet to be properly articulated. Just getting food, clean water and basic medicine to impacted communities would be a starting point but the bureaucratic delay in doing this may result in tens of thousands of unnecessary deaths.
For the last few weeks the infected cases graphs appear linear rather than exponential HOWEVER the gradient remains steep and it may be some years before the virus runs its course. Circumstances could turn rapidly better or rapidly worse BUT this virus does not mutate that easily and for the moment it's not getting any worse it seems.
Economic impacts will be significant with scaremongering having a likely greater global impact (in dollar terms) than the virus itself.
