According to the (London) “Guardian,” Adel al-Faqih, Saudi health minister, said measures have been put into place to bar Muslim pilgrims from Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea to enter Saudi Arabia.

In contrast, the Obama Administration is doing nothing to heighten screening measures at airports.

A CDC administrator on CNN could not decide whether the disease can be transmitted by sneezing.

Estimates of the number of people with whom the Liberian national with the disease currently hospitalized in Dallas may have come in close contact now range up to 100.

A highly-trained doctor in Missouri donned a protective suit to protest CDC incompetence, telling the media that, on his recent return from Guatemala, he was asked about tobacco on his person, but nothing about Ebola symptoms.

Apparently, playing Liberian golf courses is not on the Commander in Chief’s schedule, though he has sent 3,000 U.S. troops whose vague duties may extend to mowing the greens. Oval Office disapproval of Israel’s periodic “mowing the grass” to counter terrorist threats–or for U.S. “boots on the ground” of Arab sand bunkers–may not extend to African greens maintenance by American troops in hazmat suits.

The White House may also be mulling whether or not future fence jumpers will be screened for the disease. Perhaps the female agent overpowered by the most recent, knife-wheeling jumper was taken off guard because she was waiting for issuance of her hazmat suit.