The Ebola news this past week includes the announcement by President Obama that the U.S. will provide troops, engineers to build new treatment centers and training for healthcare workers
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/16/world/africa/obama-to-announce-expanded-effort-against-ebola.html?_r=0.
As these efforts progress, two essays remind us 1) of the historical ecology of fear associated with our involvement with disease in Africa http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1411244?query=TOC and 2) the need to do solid science and perform ethical field clinical studies http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1409817?query=TOC.
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