Chasing a rolling snowball (this is actually perversely good news. The money people have noticed)

[magical thyme]

2. big Pharma isn't making any money off of this. The most promising vaccine

is out of Canada and the most promising drug therapies are in development by a tiny company with fewer than a dozen mostly scientist employees.

I think you meant "procrastinates" not "prevaricates."

The longer the world procrastinates, the more opportunity Ebola will have mutate to become more contagious to humans. Given enough time, it may also mutate to become less deadly, but a bucketload of Africans, and possibly non-Africans, will die before that happens.