It's time to prevent public travel from western africa and those originating from there.

[Hugabear]

44. You do realize that would only make things worse, not better

By banning all travel from West Africa, you'll make things worse because of the following:

1. Preventing some of those infected from getting better treatment
2. Preventing doctors and health personnel from traveling to and from the infected areas
3. There are plenty of healthy people - including Americans, Europeans, etc - working and studying in West Africa.
4. Shutting down all traffic in and out of these countries would decimate their economies, making a bad situation much worse

Despite the media frenzy, the fact of the matter is that only a very small percentage of people living in West Africa have been infected. The disease is still difficult to spread. This isn't like influenza, where merely breathing the same air as someone on an airplane could potentially infect you.

How would you enforce such a ban? Even if you managed to shut down all air traffic out of the affected countries, what about neighboring countries that haven't reported any cases? There is more to West Africa than Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Nigeria. Do you restrict all travel in and out of Ghana, just in case someone tries to circumvent the travel ban? What about African nations outside of West Africa? How far do you extend your travel ban?