Ebola Ties

The Ebola scare is threatening to ruin medical and political careers, from the World Health Organization's failure to do something about it and from a Dallas hospital's failure to contain it to President Obama's failure to convince people he has a handle on it.   Everyone is suddenly scared of catching it, and there are demands to keep people from West Africa out of the United States.

Some of the fear is justified, given the fact that two nurses caught Ebola from the Liberian man who entered Dallas with the disease and died of it shortly thereafter.  There is definite need to get people treating Ebola patients to wear more thorough protective gear.  But so far there are in fact only two cases, and people who have been in contact with these nurses are being monitored closely.  There have been mistakes made in dealing with it, but these mistakes have been caught in time.  I suspect that the hype over Ebola is just another effort to get Americans scared of something so they can be whipped up into a frenzy . . . if not for political purposes, then to get good ratings for the cable news channels.

Right now, there are only isolated instances of Ebola in the United States and the European Union.  In West Africa, there's a real epidemic.  So why don't we try to stop it in Sierra Leone, Guinea, and Liberia, where lives are in the greatest danger?