When Preparation Pays Off in the Fight Against Global Outbreaks
One World, One Health

When Preparation Pays Off in the Fight Against Global Outbreaks

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Send a text When Ebola virus was first spotted in west Africa at the end of 2013, few people were ready. The region had no developed or systematic health system, patients were scattered across remote rural areas, and other infections, such as malaria, were common and mimicked the early symptoms. But a team in remote Kenema, in Sierra Leone, had been working to fight a different virus – Lassa Fever. They had set up a clinic with diagnostic testing and communications with the outside world. A t...

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