Well, I’m not particularly surprised that Dr. Spencer has been treated and will now be released after having Ebola. He got the best that modern medicine can offer - in modern and highly controlled environments. So far, no one else he’s come into contact has themselves gotten infected, which says a lot about infection control and what that means to getting the disease under control.

It also speaks volumes on how to stop the disease epidemic in Africa. It means getting the same levels of tech, gear, and supportive therapies to Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea so that the patients who are diagnosed with the disease are given a fighting chance.

Clearly there’s something beneficial to getting timely treatment in a modern facility. That’s also clearly lacking in the affected countries, so the mortality rate can be brought down significantly with the right level of supportive treatments, gear, and health care workers following infection control protocols with the proper support (IOW - not having to reuse or ration PPE for only the worst cases).

If the health care workers over there can get the right kind of support, they will gain the trust of the people there who are scared to even consider bringing loved ones to the hospitals and treatment centers for fear they’ll never see them again.

Give them a fighting chance. Except that means giving money and putting personnel in harms’ way in a place that few know where to find on a map - and there’s nothing gotten in return (except the termination of a horrible epidemic before it spreads much further and limits potential exposures and secondary cases outside the hot zone - like in the US).