and so the epidemic rolled on. >> that is a good point to bring it here to bryan walsh. had a lot of thinking about what is going on in africa. we heard about 75% of the people infected were caregivers, most of them women. what has been your thinking about what is going on? >> we have seen an enhanced response. president obama talked about it. a major topic of the u.n. general assembly. this is not something getting under control, really, in sera lyons and ginny and liberia. it is very difficult. these are countries where the health-care systems were already badly damaged, coming at a civil war's, now trying to deal with this disease. on one hand we know how to control it, but that is a lot harder to do when you are talking about dozens of new cases, difficult conditions, having to use very challenging personal protection equipment to make sure that the doctors don't get the disease. so this is something that is not going to end anytime soon. >> i saw a video from sierra leone shown to me by dan kelly, a doctor who went there. in it, there was a woman carrying a baby, an

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joining us now, senior writer for "time" magazine bryan walsh. show, joining us from walk, "vanity fair's" jeffrey stern has been tracking the virus' path. what are the questions we still don't know answers to in terms of the efforts to contain it. are there any? >> i think one of the really important things is from the very beginning why did we lose the cooperation of the population so quickly? one of the things that happened is the international community when it responded responded quickly, doctors without borders, cdc, world health organization, that's right. but in a lot of cases, no one had heard of ebola before there were men in space suits sort of tramping into their village to take grandma aby a. we started to lose the population early on. >> looking domestically, brian, what do you think? because everybody we have on who is an expert on this says it will be contained. it can be contained. no worry here. is there really no worry? >> there is not no worry, of course. it is concerning any time disease this dangerous appears, but the cdc di