Originally Posted by MrTrollkien

The casualties in health workers (volunteers too) is truly sad. But the inaction by the west is simply symptomatic of a capitalistic regimes. The west reacted to the beheading of a couple of westerners in Iraq with disproportionate investment in a new war and the munitions companies make greater profits. Western drug companies have not focused on Ebola vaccines because there is no profit in doing so protecting their already obscene profits. Western countries are beefing up their border protection to keep the poor-man's disease from breaching their shores protecting their health systems from potentially huge cost imposts.
If we can't lift above our vested interests to nip these outbreaks in the bud then what hope have we got when we have to address the disaster that will befall us when Nature decides it has had enough of us and our greed and surrenders to carbon pollution. Capitalism needs to be reformed back to a workable model on a global basis, we just have to care enough about or fellow man and less about our wallets.