The current epidemic, which africa struggles with, is something that we should have thought about. They do not have a healthcare structure that can deal with the regular issues that good on over there from a healthcare perspective. Now were adding to this injury by ebola, or nature is adding to the countrys with ebola outbreak. The first focus needs to be on relative simple things to decrease mortality in west africa. Intravenous hydration, managing nausea, fever, and superimposed bacterial infections will relatively inexpensive measures that can be part of a package that can be delivered do west africa. Theres critical need of beds in the most affected countries. Proper training and protective gear needs to be provided to the hospital staff, and the staff dealing with the corpses. Their complex ethical challenges which abound and are related to the use of untested interventions, quarantine, special care and other issues. The u. S. , u institutes of health played a critical roll in imp