IF THE NEXT OUTBREAK IS WORSE THAN THIS ONE BY THE SAME DEGREE THAT THIS ONE WAS WORSE THAN THE LAST, WE SHOULD ALL WORRY: Liberia Is Declared Free of Ebola, but Officials Sound Note of Caution.
The main upside of this outbreak is that it exposed just how unready public-health folks were for a serious outbreak of communicable disease. Will we take the lesson and whip them into shape? Or fall back into business as usual?