We must revise the current logic to protect our humanity from infectious disease outbreaks
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By September 2014, the once isolated Ebola had traveled on major highways to the densely populated cities of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea. As have been demonstrated in previous epidemics, the world went from panic to neglect of Ebola, so that by November 2022, similar to Ebola Zaire in West Africa, Ebola Sudan made its way from the rural Mabande District to the densely populated city of Kampala. And in each of these instances, as we are now seeing in Equatorial Guinea with Marburg Virus outbreak, our World was unprepared with vaccines and therapeutics. [...]
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