We have a better health care system, and are able to keep patients quarantined while tests are run to determine if they do have Ebola (if they have the travel history to suggest such testing is worthwhile). In the hospital, we practice good infection control measures.
An even more important factor is that we do not have the customs that they have in Africa. When someone dies, it is not part of our funeral custom to stroke or lay hands on the dead body to say good-bye. Nor do families wash the bodies or give them enemas while preparing them for burial, all of which are customs in Africa. Many of the Ebola cases happened through touching dead bodies at funerals.
We have a better health care system, and are able to keep patients quarantined while tests are run to determine if they do have Ebola (if they have the travel history to suggest such testing is worthwhile). In the hospital, we practice good infection control measures.
An even more important factor is that we do not have the customs that they have in Africa.
That's right. The USA has 128 Million people who commute to work every day. Only 75% of these people drive alone. The rest really "commute", sharing the ride by carpooling, bus, train, subway, plane. Lots of filthy people contact all along the way.
Most of those people interact with others a couple of times each day at fast food joints, convenience stores, gas stations, dry cleaners, grocery stores, big box stores, etc., exchanging money, credit cards, products, etc., hand to hand.
Probably half of these working people have at least one meeting each day, crammed into little meeting rooms.
There are also 200 Million people who don't go to work, but interact with other people daily at schools, daycares, stores, bars, on the street, sporting events, etc.
People in the USA are just as filthy and stupid as people in the worst cultural conditions in Africa, just in different ways.
When ebola starts spreading in the USA, it will travel faster and farther than in Africa. Aiding in its spread will be the people saying, "there's nothing to worry about here," to their last gurgling gasp.