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Yes because it's Americans that are affected.
Not many cared about Ebola until Ebola left Africa.
And just like here the folks in Spain are just as upset and demanding the same of their government.
Once it happens on your shores, people seem to wake up because the threat becomes more real.
Ebola in the US is NOT the same as Ebola in Africa.
The numbers would be drastically different (and lower).
Maybe it is nitpicking, but unlike Spain, not a single person has contracted Ebola in the US.
"Media reporting three deputies are symptomatic. Details on one, Michael Monnig, had three symptoms consistent with Ebola, achey, fatigued, and stomach problems. He also spent 30 minutes in Thomas Eric Duncan's apartment, while serving a quarantine order. It is unclear of the other two deputies have similar histories and also were in Duncan's apartment with Monning."
"Media reporting three deputies are symptomatic. Details on one, Michael Monnig, had three symptoms consistent with Ebola, achey, fatigued, and stomach problems. He also spent 30 minutes in Thomas Eric Duncan's apartment, while serving a quarantine order. It is unclear of the other two deputies have similar histories and also were in Duncan's apartment with Monning."
Explain Lagos then. If Ebola is airborne or transmitted by mosquitoes, then how did Lagos (a 3rd World city 3 times the size of Dallas) manage to contain and stop it?
There are a number of reasons Nigeria succeeded.
Big donations from Gates Foundation gave them a good medical infrastructure.
The people are more trusting of their government.
The people themselves don't believe in all the superstitions.
And..pure luck.
If you look for decades we have always ignored reality until it became a crisis. The biggest example is WWII. They knew but failed to respond to the threat Hitler posed to world. Dang near caused destruction of most of the world. The western world has continued to become more reactive than ever really.
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