Any predictions on the next numbers?

Onefluover - you have to remember that a disease needs two things to trigger a major pandemic - a high CAR and CFR. This strain's holding steady at about 60% CFR, but can it infect efficiently enough to kick off an uncontrollable pandemic with the kind of contagion we've seen in West Africa? I doubt it. As we discussed in another thread, genetic immunity alone would make seven billion an impossible figure for one virus - even flu can only infect about 50 % of the population.
If we talk real world numbers, in six months Ebola has infected a very small percentage of the population of the four countries so far affected. By contrast, something like flu moves incredibly fast with a very short incubation period.
You referenced Spanish Flu - during the 1918 pandemic, against advice from every medical expert, Philadelphia held a Liberty Loan parade. Thousands of people lined the streets to watch, and within 72 hours every single bed in the city's thirty one hospitals filled up with newly infected flu victims. It may have killed a much smaller percentage of those infected but H1N1's ability to spread far outstripped anything Ebola is capable of, and that makes all the difference.

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