Ebola-A chance to put recent lectures to practice

Looks like our we didnt have to do an outbreak investigation simulation exercise in class! There was an epidemic happenning miles away in Uganda unbeknoweth to us! How the epidemic was handled is another matter for the IHP bloggers to debate! There are reports that the index cases appeared in August but were not publicised until after the large Common Wealth meeting ended. So while delegates were deliberating in the capital city, ebola a disease with case fatality 50%-100% case fatality was spreading! The government explains that, and I quote "the government delayed to declare the disease due to long and tedious laboratory test procedures"
[Monitor Newpaper]-Read "long and tedious" means sending blood sample to a level 4 laboratory at CDC in Atlanta, Georgia!
For Ebola which has no effective treatment, was the government right to wait for laboratory confirmation before deciding to warn the public or starting control measures? The the saga continues...Especially given the fact that the epidemic presented in a similar way to the past Ebola epidemics epidemics presented except that it was a slightly different strain!

So for students of epidemiology! Here is a chance to draw the epidemic curve or interpret one and suggest ways of controlling this epidemic with over 20 people dead. http://www.who.int/csr/don/2007_12_07/en/index.html

Moses