The current West African Ebola outbreak is big, tragic, and exceedingly dangerous.  Current trends point to 20,000 infected patients by November.

Martin Leopoldo has been posting the current tally of cases, and it’s not pretty.  This is a big deal, folks.  Let’s hope that the combination of border lockdowns, U.S. (and other) military personnel and field hospitals can head things off.  If not, the world is in for a lot of misery…

Source: Martin Leopoldo / wikipedia entry.