And although Ebola is very deadly -- which is why it is studied in level four labs -- it is not very contagious. It is not airborne, which makes a whole lot of difference.

That is unless you live in a poor country which does not trust science-based medicine and has cultural practices which predispose the population to mistrust both the government and medical science. Then, Ebola finds a particularly rich growth medium: economic, cultural and political.

These Ebola articles basically ignore all of that.

Kudos to them disclosing this but they need to be called out so it doesnt happen again.

If they can't properly handle ebola, I don't want them anywhere near vials of other deadly viruses like the plague.

It's endemic in rodents in the Sierra. If you're scared of it stop worrying about fuckups at the CDC and develop a terror of camping trips.

Nobody knows it better than they do.

They are amongst the number one level four labs on the planet studying these pathogens. In fact, they are one of the very few level four labs on the planet.

Now if one is going to claim that they fuck up all the time, I would say that either somebody is delusional, or is a conspiracy theorist.

The deal is... Science has checks and balances. But in an extreme emergency like the current Ebola outbreak in west Africa, where all the top resources on the planet are strained, mistakes are made.

The current outbreak is already straining every resource anybody can pour into west Africa. Why? Because idiots are telling the public that the CDC and WHO and Doctors Without Borders volunteers are not healing people, but are spreading Ebola as some sort of global conspiracy. So those infected are hiding, and therefore spreading the infection further.

Of course they disclose the mistakes. They are hard pressed to win the battle. And science tends to disclose. It's how they win the battles like this.

So give them a break. Hopefully the public in west Africa will start listening to people like Doctors Without Borders (the CDC, WHO, etc.) instead of the kooks.