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And now WHO is admitting there might be 1.6 million cases and over a million deaths by the end of January. I guess that is what happens with you engage in social media spats rather than doing your job.
The best news in this story is the Canadians have come up with an experimental vaccine.
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What is there to explain? The WHO and everyone else in the first world ignored this Ebola outbreak. They were, and probably still are, completely unprepared for it.
In fairness, I think it took everyone by surprise to some extent. For starters, it had never been reported from West Africa, and there are a lot of diseases there that have similar symptoms to Ebola. Even once it was identified, the largest previous outbreak infected only a little over 300 people. It’s the combination of dense population, cultural practices, and almost no health infrastructure from decades of war that made this into a perfect storm for it to fester and eventually take off.
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