Politics and religion.

[Karen]

Again, when fighting an infectious disease, step one of the field hygiene manual calls for the elimination of vectors.

We're bringing new vectors into the situation.

Those soldiers, sailors and marines are going to have to be quarantined for 21 days after exposure.

Maybe put them all on a slow boat back to the States?

Hopefully none of them come down with Ebola, but hope in one hand...
We're killing people on the altar of political correctness and feeling good. Quarantine, limit (preferably eliminate) travel in the affected areas, and for goodness sake, no more damned commercial flights out of the hot zone. (It's too late for all that, however, the horse has left the barn)

Yeah, it is unconscionable that there have been no limits to flight out of the three most affected nations, and if you think you are going to get sick, well, then you probably want to get "somewhere better" and then end up spreading the disease.

I still think, though, it was plain ignorance that led the Spanish officials to kill that nurse's dog. That that woman got trend away and sent home from three different hospitals, makes Eric Duncan's case look like it was expertly handled!