Opinion: What if this Ebola outbreak can’t be stopped?
ONP Summary
An Ebola outbreak spanning Congo and neighboring Uganda has claimed over 500 lives among more than 1,500 confirmed cases. Researchers have initiated a clinical trial testing an experimental monoclonal antibody and antiviral therapy, while frontline healthcare workers threaten work stoppages over unpaid wages and hazardous conditions.
Progressive: System failure — Worker strikes and vaccine shortages reveal inadequate healthcare infrastructure unable to properly support frontline staff during outbreak response.
Moderate: Complex response — Controlling Ebola demands both scientific innovation through drug trials and social intervention addressing community fear and stigma.
Conservative: Clinical opportunity — Experimental treatments offer a medical pathway to containing the outbreak despite ongoing casualties.
In the past, the possibility of endemic Ebola was unthinkable.
This time is different, write Ivan Buendia Gayton and Eric D.
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