From Senegal and Nigeria, 4 Lessons on How to Stop Ebola
As the U.S. wrestles with a new case in New York, two West African nations have become models for dealing with the crisis.
Senegal is a poverty-stricken nation that borders Guinea, one of the three countries hit hardest by the Ebola epidemic in West Africa. More than 1,500 people in Guinea have been infected with the Ebola virus since last December, and more than 900 of them have died.
In Senegal, however, there has been just one case and no deaths.
In Nigeria—Africa's most populous country, with about 174 million people, roughly 21 million of them in Lagos, the continent's largest city—Ebola was carried in by a Liberian American, Patrick Sawyer, who landed at the Lagos airport in July and passed the disease to everyone who helped him, from the officer who escorted him to the hospital to nine of the doctors and nurses
