Well call me a bit of a wimp but I would not like to be travelling to certain countries and I do not think it is wise to think just because we have a good hygene standard in this country in comparison to say Nigeria we can be complacent given the nature and spread of the disease alongside the ease of connectivity between countries, including the UK.
The symptoms are similar to flu. Ebola is practically fatal if contracted by humans, with no vaccine or known cure if I am not mistaken.
I know it said that the culture of eating 'bush meat', a known carrier of the Ebola virus and the fact families are culturally required to wash and bury their dead so quickly is perhaps not going to mean much to us. Whilst Ebola is not an airborne transmitted virus, it is contagious if you come close enough to infected bodily fluid. This can be through vomit, sweat, kissing, diarrhoea etc.
I fully appreciate the chance of this happening is 'remote' but if you consider a scenario where an infected passenger on a plane is sweating, uses a tissue and leaves it for somebody to dispose of, that person could unwittingly be exposed. A passenger on a plane has diarrhoea and does not clean the toilet or door handles properly, a child may be the next user of the toilet and does not wash his/her hands correctly, that child could be exposed. Agreed all hypothetical but none the less that is the reality of how easy a virus is transmitted and Ebola is hardly a virus to mess with.
Ebola patients are difficult to diagnose allowing days of possible coughing over others. As for the doctor who died I do not believe for one moment he put himself in a compromising position but it proved to be too deadly a virus and he paid the ultimate price.
I am not thinking there will be an outbreak by the weekend in the UK. I am only saying I think it has to be accepted that there is a distinct possibility we could see the first case here given the spread of the horrible disease and the widely used air traffic into the UK from infected countries.