CDC Prediction of Ebola Spread Is Not A Useful Estimate- Experts

I personally felt that the CDC prediction "that Ebola may infect
1.4-million people in Sierra Leone and Liberia by January" was
over-board and

I'm glad some others are thinking so too.

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine director Peter Piot, a
co-discoverer of the Ebola virus, says:

"Unless the CDC has data nobody else has, this is not a useful
estimate. We should certainly not assume that our collective efforts
won't have any impact.

"This epidemic is like weather forecasting," Prof Dye said. "We can go
a week, maybe two weeks into the future, but beyond that everything is
uncertain.

"We've made the best judgment we can, and in our judgment it's not
valid to go any further than four weeks ahead."

Prof Dye, WHO director of Strategy also said:

'This epidemic is like weather forecasting, we can go a week, maybe
two weeks into the future, but beyond that everything is uncertain.

The challenge for outbreak forecasters is to find a balance between
raising an alarm and "going over the top".'

It's as if some people just want to sentence these people to death.
Would they have been able to forecast Nigeria not having a single case
after

Patrick Sawyer "imported" it?