Epidemic

Ebola and the Global Scramble to Prevent the Next Killer Outbreak

Ranked #9 in Ebola

A global health catastrophe narrowly averted. A world unprepared for another outbreak.

In December 2013, a young boy in a tiny West African village contracted the deadly Ebola virus. The virus spread to his relatives, then to neighboring communities, then across international borders. The world's first urban Ebola outbreak quickly overwhelmed the global health system and threatened to kill millions.

As we are currently seeing, in an increasingly interconnected world in which everyone is one or two flights away from New York or London or Beijing, a localized...
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