All together now

• Autores: Debora MacKenzie
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3052-3053, 2015, págs. 40-41
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • MacKenzie details the disastrous Ebola outbreak that proves people need a global health body that trumps individual national interest. A clutch of reports from high-level panels have agreed that dithering by this United Nations agency in 2014 was partly what turned an outbreak in Guinea into the worst-ever epidemic of the virus. At last count, it had stricken 28,600 people, killed 11,300 and cost billions--and at one point almost became too big to rein in. Almost The epidemic was on course for apocalyptic case numbers in mid-2014 epidemiologists feared the virus would become a constant presence in the region, and even beyond. But the WHO, the world--and the people In affected countries, who changed theft behavior to stop contagion--rallied in time. It now seems all but over.