We posted an earlier story about an self-concerned American nurse throwing a hissy fit for being held in quarantine in New Jersey because she had come from treating Ebola patients, and she had a fever.

Counterpoint. Here is a riveting story of a true hero, doing what he can in an ever-growing epidemic in Liberia. We are paying attention to Ebola because it has hit our shores, but he and others have been dealing with it since March, lacking doctors and facilities. He consciously chooses to live away from his family and to live by himself so that he doesn’t risk exposing them. He deals every day with violently ill Ebola patients and knows if he ever even makes one mistake, it might be his last.

The World Health Organization says the number of people believed sickened by Ebola has risen above 10,000. Of those, 4,922 people have died. Those numbers are likely an underestimate, according to WHO. It has particularly affected Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, but there have also been cases in three other West African countries, Spain and the United States. Mali recorded its first case of Ebola Thursday.

HT: Barb