Ebola

[EyeKhan]

Ebola has currently killed 2 people outside of West Africa. That's a pretty good reason why the world (i.e. the world outside of West Africa) isn't particularly prepared.

I think ignorance is as much responsible for the Ebola deaths in Africa as Ebola itself.

It seems amazing that guy who brought it to Texas didn't infect anyone beyond the two nurses. He was walking around sick as can be but didn't manage to give it to anyone else, even the people he was living with. That says more about the danger of Ebola than the two nurses who did catch it from caring for him directly.

EDIT: I think statements like "the world isn't prepared for Ebola" send the wrong message about the disease. There are high risk segments of society - health care workers, as example, were demonstrably not prepared in Dallas and in Spain. But is the US prepared for Ebola? I'd argue aside from screening travelers from West Africa, training up certain hospital staff, and making sure the right protective equipment is available, there isn't much more the US should do to prepare. The danger of what's happening in West Africa occurring here is negligible.