On getting the right things right

Amid all the hysteria about ebola, here's a piece from Reuters worth reading.

Whether Ebola infects others beyond the Dallas patient is a good litmus test for our high-tech health system. Ebola is still spreading in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, which all have primitive health systems. But in Nigeria, where almost 900 people were exposed to Ebola and 20 were diagnosed with the disease, the outbreak has been stamped out. In Senegal, more than 60 people were exposed to a single Ebola patient — and no one came down with the disease.