West Africa: What Is to Be Done After 11,312 Unnecessary Ebola-Related Deaths?

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Every year it seems a new global health crisis emerges. Today, the Zika virus sows panic throughout Latin America. In 2014-5, it was Ebola, which killed 11,312 people in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea in just 18 months. By WILMOT JAMES.

This extract was compiled from the Brenthurst Foundation Special Report 11,312 Unnecessary Ebola-related Deaths: Building Citizen Trust in Health Systems (by Helen Epstein with contributions by Janusz Paweska and Wilmot James), Johannesburg, 13 June 2016.

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