NIAID Director: Isolating West Africa Could Make the Ebola Spread Worse

"The  only difficulty is when you isolate a country, there are unexpected effects that really could possibly paradoxically make things worse. The best way to protect Americans is to completely control and eliminate the epidemic in West Africa. And when you essentially isolate a country, what happens in there that they themselves find it more difficult to be able to suppress the epidemic. There could be economic instability. There could be collapse of government. And then what happens is that there is a possibility that this epidemic will spread to other African countries, making it even more difficult for us to suppress."