Ebola — time for action
I trained in microbiology so I’ve watched the Ebola situation unfold with quiet dread. When my favourite lecturer was asked what was worst of the worst infectious epidemics he could imagine, he...
View ArticleEbola is potentially airborne
I’ve been watching Ebola with concern. I hoped we’d have more time. We can still gain control but every week matters. What we do now will be so much easier than what we have to do if we leave it to...
View ArticleEbola: a relentless tide we have to stop while we still can
The bad news –Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said the disease was still out of control. Thanks to the mistake with a plane, a few US schools have closed, and whole neighborhoods are being roped off....
View ArticleCompany stops Ebola, Bureaucracy puts it on a plane
Compare the response of The Firestone Rubber Plantation in Liberia to the Hospital in Dallas, Texas. The rubber plantation has 8,000 workers with 71,000 dependents. It is an hour north-east of...
View ArticleNigeria declared free of Ebola, but do the maths
I am glad that Nigeria is officially free of Ebola now. The story is reassuring. New outbreaks of Ebola are stoppable. But the numbers are sobering. They show how far gone the situation is in West...
View ArticleThe Ebola Wars: The best article I’ve seen yet
The New Yorker has the best article I have read yet on the Ebola outbreak. Finally we get human story and details of how this outbreak started and spread, along with the outstanding heroic efforts of...
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