Yes Kriswest, creating a vaccine would be best. However, just lumping Money + Scientist does not = Cure. If it was the case, the Soviet Union would of cured every fucking disease on the planet under Stalin.
A scientist needs to have a philosophical grasp via some profound insight you and I are lacking. Clearly, they do not have it, due to the fact this damn disease is very much rampaging.
And no… it will be easy.
Topographically, the first places consistently targeted would be the core areas around residential zones, hitting where the bats roost. They are mammals, not birds… have a higher metabolism and longer gestation period… will base out of similar location, and given they are a unique species of bat, will have a uniquely shaped body, and thus slightly different sound given off in Echo Location that we can fingerprint on a parabolic level using trigonometry, upon sunset to determine the direction the bats come from. This azimuth determines within a small range of error where they roost.
Such tech is very cheap, I could build it under ten bucks… programming it a little more expensive, but well within reason for licence authorities.
Less exposure to human habitation the better. After this, a asymmetric crunch knocking out the roosting cells on a spiral overlapping between primary communities would be most effective, as well as local knowledge of deep woodland caves and rock shelters, and other roosting quirks.
Hardly impossible. The side effect of the cold war is, we learned several highly effective, scientific tactics to systematically come into contact with evasive guerrilla cells on broken terrain, under circumstances previously thought impossible under older tactical systems.
This is not a hard one to do. It is not trillions of acres. Its a subregion that overlaps a few small states with high unemployment. It is easy to organize something like this on their level, and may very well be the only workable solution. Your Kriswest, literally has no underlining basis to your point of view. If it is that easy, I will get you some pig money and a ticket to Sierra Leone, and Lev will send you very supportive postcards from far, far away.