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“Das Virus ist gekommen, um zu bleiben.”
Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim
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They’d find a cure if Ebola came to London
“We must also tackle the scandal of the unwillingness of the pharmaceutical industry to invest in research to produce treatments and vaccines, something they refuse to do because the numbers involved are, in their terms, so small and don’t justify the investment. This is the moral bankruptcy of capitalism acting in the absence of an ethical and social framework.” Dr John Ashton asks us to respond to the current outbreak of Ebola in West Africa as if it took place in Kensington, Chelsea, and Westminster.
Also see Face to face with Ebola, a report by Anja Wolz on working for Médecins sans Frontières in Sierra Leone.
Is there a doctor on the plane?
“At any given moment, more than half a million people are in the air. What happens when one of them gets seriously ill—or even dies—mid-flight?” Emma Brockes reports on why no one ever actually dies on an aircraft. Interesting comments section.