Thursday, September 18, 2014

The new U.S.commitment to Ebola and the ecology of fear

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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