Alongside Ebola in West Africa, another African country, Madagascar, is also dealing with an infectious disease outbreak, in this case the bubonic plague.
http://news.discovery.com/human/health/ ... 141125.htmLike West Africa, there's a perfect storm of conditions coming together to spread this disease. Dense populations, poor health infrastructure, slum neighborhoods that harbor infected rodents, and the fleas that carry the bacteria from rodent to human have grown resistant to a lot of pesticides. The disease is easily treated early with antibiotics, but there's not much infrastructre to effectively deliver it. Plus there's always the potential for the bacteria to become resistant.