Not surprised to see this. I'm sure a lot of products are going to be impacted in some way.
As far the impact of this or other diseases it only takes the right sequence of events and some disease can take off like wildfire. If big enough heath care resources will be quickly overwhelmed. Developing vaccines doesn't happen overnight. It can be a year or more to test the effectiveness and safety.
No country or countries are immune from the effects are a major epidemic given the fact how quickly one can be in another part of the world and how many people they come into contact in their travels. The world has been fairly fortunate so far.