Sending Argus and 3 Merlin. Hate to sound heartless, but our resources should focus entirely on protecting our own islands. I don't think these people should go. They will be needed here soon.
It's like the world is hypnotised into a paralysis in this crises, and simply cannot either react, or doesn't want to react - for commercial reasons.
Multinationals (oil and gas) are burying their heads in the sand in this W. African region about this issue. They and their hosts cannot afford to turn off the tap that is supplying offshore O and G workers that travel here on their rotations. People have to travel from and to Europe to keep the oil flowing into Nigeria, Angola and more. stop them coming and the oil industry collapses here in a matter of....days.
Woo tinfoil hats.
A geography lesson. Nigeria is six countries away from Ebola, Angola is several more.
A lesson about oil. None of the currently affected countries produce any.
The mining companies have policies in place that make infection a remote possibility only. No physical contact, no infection. As far as I am aware the mining companies are all using charters to Accra to avoid the "sitting next to" problem.