Of course we should institute a travel ban on majorly affected nations. Anybody who's even so much as played Pandemic knows this is the first step. I have yet to hear a serious argument as to why we shouldn't. We now have multiple Ebola cases in America explicitly because of our refusal to take this necessary step.
Containment is the first step to resolving this.
Of course. Design decisions made in the service of having a playable board game with simple and engaging mechanics should
totally be taken as expert advice from actual epidemiologists. Makes perfect sense.
This is the same principle by which
Risk proved that control of Australia is the most important step towards control of the world; or, to get even nerdier, how
Twilight Struggle proved that domino theory was correct*.
*never mind that the designer of Twilight Struggle was forthright about how it was adopted for the purpose of gameplay (or at best a window into the minds of people who actually believed it) rather than perfect historical verisimilitude...