It is high time Ebola is taken as seriously as it should be. There is almost a cavalier attitude toward it - especially by the USA.

There should be a quarantine station in each of the affected countries that anyone wanting to move to another African country or internationally should have to stay for one month before leaving then straight to a plane.

It is a grave error to assume that the virus can only be contracted via bodily pathological excretions because kitted up staff who are kitted in such a way there is no chance of a pathological secretion getting anywhere near the worker yet they get infected.

Further every clinical institution needs to have UV protection installed to lower the inevitability of the spread of this virus. Viruses cannot live in a UV saturated environment.

Some clinical institutions are using UV but not enough they should ALL be using UV radiation as should all passenger aircraft. It should be compulsory for a passenger aircraft to have UV protection in the A/C ducting. Planes are the most efficient infections devices in the world and spread more disease than any other medium.

Alastair Bourne, Bethlehem.