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Public-health workers are still struggling to stamp out the Ebola epidemic in West Africa. But the lessons learned from that outbreak ? which exposed major flaws in the global public-health system ? are shaping the escalating international response to the spread of Zika virus in the Americas.
?Ebola is the gorilla in the room,? says Lawrence Gostin, a health-law and policy specialist at Georgetown University in Washington DC. ?It?s driving everything.?
He and others say that governments and international public-health agencies seem determined not to repeat the main mistake that they made with Ebola: waiting for much too long to respond to a brewing outbreak. The delay allowed Ebola to grow so out of control in West Africa that the epidemic there persists after more than 2 years and 11,000 deaths.
http://www.nature.com/news/spectre-of-ebola-haunts-zika-response-1.19471
?Ebola is the gorilla in the room,? says Lawrence Gostin, a health-law and policy specialist at Georgetown University in Washington DC. ?It?s driving everything.?
He and others say that governments and international public-health agencies seem determined not to repeat the main mistake that they made with Ebola: waiting for much too long to respond to a brewing outbreak. The delay allowed Ebola to grow so out of control in West Africa that the epidemic there persists after more than 2 years and 11,000 deaths.
http://www.nature.com/news/spectre-of-ebola-haunts-zika-response-1.19471