We are being bombarded with information about the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa and the really frightening news that it is now in the US. And we wonder, “Who will be next?”

We hear people like Margaret Chan, the Chief of the World Health Organization (WHO) tell us that the Ebola epidemic is “out of control.”[1] But what does that mean? According to Dr. Tim Lahey, MD, an infectious disease specialist, there are currently about 900 known cases …