Ebola appears to have been eradicated from Nigeria, in no small part because that country had a Gates Foundation-supported hospital with personnel trained and equipped to control infectious diseases. If, over the past decade or two, affluent countries had done more to assist Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea, the current Ebola outbreak could have been minimized, if not prevented.
对抗传染病的最佳防御是在发源地战胜它，而这要求良好的医疗服务。埃博拉似乎已经被赶出了尼日利亚，这很大程度上要归功于尼日利亚拥有盖茨基金会（Gates Foundation）所支持的一家医院，该医院有受过训练的人手和设备控制疫情。如果在过去一二十年里富裕国家对利比里亚、塞拉利昂和圭亚那予以更大的支持，当前的埃博拉大爆发即使不能预防也可以得到最大程度的遏制。