Icewolf
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How India responds to such public-health challenges is a matter of growing importance. The country's success in eradicating polio, and a renewed enthusiasm for tackling dreadful sanitation, both suggest more capacity and greater will to address the spread of diseases. But at the same time, a large and ever more mobile population mean that illnesses are more easily spread. How India would react to a more deadly, and virulent, public-health threat—such as it would if the Ebola virus were brought into the country, by the many Indians who work in West Africa—is uncertain. Peter Piot, who helped to discover Ebola, says the spread of Ebola to India is a great worry. One starting point for addressing any public-health problem—whether dengue, Ebola or anything else—is with the gathering and publishing of accurate data about it. If India can improve its record on this count, so much the better.