[Ken H]

On a per case basis, health care workers in W. Africa have been far more successful at avoiding this disease than have those in the US. And it isn't even close. Had they behaved as lackadaisically, and with as little common sense, their health care workers wouldn't have lasted days, let alone months. As pathetic as it is, their level of responsibility has far exceeded ours (although they have virtually zero resources at their disposal, whereas ours our essentially limitless).

All of the 230+ deaths among health care workers have been in west Africa. All but 3 of the 400 cases contracted have also been in w. Africa =>

Around the globe, about 400 health care staff have contracted Ebola, and more than 230 have died.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/dandiamond/2014/10/15/ebola-has-already-killed-more-than-200-doctors-nurses-and-other-healthcare-workers/

[jjsheridan5]

Around the globe, about 400 health care staff have contracted Ebola, and more than 230 have died.

I can honestly not tell if you are trying to agree with me, or disagree with me. But your evidence is very supportive of my point. We have had one active case, leading to two secondary cases (so far), a 1:2 ratio. There have been at least 5000 cases in W. Africa (and probably closer to 50000), yet the number of infected h.c. workers is somewhere between one tenth of that, and one one-hundredth. Far, far, far better than we have managed.