The ongoing West African Ebola epidemic is officially the most deadly on record, and the number of infected persons is steadily rising. Donna Patterson, assistant professor of Africana studies, writes and teaches about Africa and global health issues and has been traveling to the region most affected by the outbreak for almost 20 years. She reflects on why we should be paying close attention to the outbreak.
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She writes:
This outbreak is unprecedented for many reasons: the speed and sustained pattern of infection, its existence in some high-density settings, and its emergence in the West African subregion. It arrived without any forewarning and within a matter of two weeks 80 cases were confirmed. By late May, it seemed as if the epidemic would subside like previous cases but in June, cases and deaths spiked and the disease began to take hold in new areas.
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