[flar]

While there is no reason to panic, we should be concerned and the world should be putting every possible effort into ending the epidemic in Africa while it is still manageable.

Sure, first-world health care practices can contain the virus as it is, but if this spreads to one the massive slums in an African megacity, things could really get out of hand. The virus will mutate, as all fast replicating organisms do. Whether it will become "airborne" or not, no one can say, but the possibility exists. Every time someone contracts ebola there are billions of opportunities for the virus to mutate into something more contagious.

Even if this possibility is remote--and it is--it's still a possibility. If it happens, there is no turning back. So do everything possible now to make sure it doesn't happen. I think we forget too easily that we're at the mercy of mother nature.