A review of THE COMING PLAGUE: NEWLY EMERGING DISEASES IN A WORLD OUT OF BALANCE by Laurie Garrett, published in 1994. CHAPTER 7: N’ZARA: LASSA, EBOLA, AND THE DEVELOPING WORLD’S ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL POLICIES A startling increase in their incidence over the last decade Similar dam-related epidemics of Rift Valley fever would occur during the …
A review of THE COMING PLAGUE: NEWLY EMERGING DISEASES IN A WORLD OUT OF BALANCE by Laurie Garrett, published in 1994. CHAPTER 7: N’ZARA: LASSA, EBOLA, AND THE DEVELOPING WORLD’S ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL POLICIES The world’s biggest health lender The World Bank didn’t begin to view health care as a specific part of its mission …
A review of THE COMING PLAGUE: NEWLY EMERGING DISEASES IN A WORLD OUT OF BALANCE by Laurie Garrett, published in 1994. CHAPTER 7: N’ZARA: LASSA, EBOLA, AND THE DEVELOPING WORLD’S ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL POLICIES Usually ignored were community-based projects From both sides of the Iron Curtain, donors’ monetary contributions to poor nations were all too …
A review of THE COMING PLAGUE: NEWLY EMERGING DISEASES IN A WORLD OUT OF BALANCE by Laurie Garrett, published in 1994. CHAPTER 7: N’ZARA: LASSA, EBOLA, AND THE DEVELOPING WORLD’S ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL POLICIES Twenty-six of the world’s most impoverished nations were in Africa There was nothing unique about Sierra Leone. The lack of basic …
A review of THE COMING PLAGUE: NEWLY EMERGING DISEASES IN A WORLD OUT OF BALANCE by Laurie Garrett, published in 1994. CHAPTER 7: N’ZARA: LASSA, EBOLA, AND THE DEVELOPING WORLD’S ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL POLICIES An instrument of biological warfare While his colleagues in Atlanta anguished over Swine Flu damage control, Joe McCormick was content to …
A review of THE COMING PLAGUE: NEWLY EMERGING DISEASES IN A WORLD OUT OF BALANCE by Laurie Garrett, published in 1994. Chapter 5: Yambuku – EBOLA The Bumba quarantine was lifted As Christmas 1976 approached, Peter Piot prepared to leave the place that had over two and a half months’ time come to feel like …
A review of THE COMING PLAGUE: NEWLY EMERGING DISEASES IN A WORLD OUT OF BALANCE by Laurie Garrett, published in 1994. Chapter 5: Yambuku – EBOLA Absolutely no airplanes, trucks, or other vehicles were allowed Don Francis was burned out before he ever got involved in the Sudan episode. When CDC officers called him in …
A review of THE COMING PLAGUE: NEWLY EMERGING DISEASES IN A WORLD OUT OF BALANCE by Laurie Garrett, published in 1994. Chapter 5: Yambuku – EBOLA Some of Conn’s samples still contained live Ebola virus On November 26, 1976 U.S. Peace Corps volunteer Del Conn told team members in the Yanbuku area that his head …
A review of THE COMING PLAGUE: NEWLY EMERGING DISEASES IN A WORLD OUT OF BALANCE by Laurie Garrett, published in 1994. Chapter 5: Yambuku – EBOLA On November 16, 1976 McCormick returned with startling news News of Platt’s illness came to Yambuku on November 12, 1976 hitting the commission members very hard. Morale Plummeted and …
A review of THE COMING PLAGUE: NEWLY EMERGING DISEASES IN A WORLD OUT OF BALANCE by Laurie Garrett, published in 1994. Chapter 5: Yambuku – EBOLA The syringe containing Ebola-infected guinea pig blood jammed into the tip of his thumb For nearly a month Platt had toiled with caution and deliberation in his laboratory at …
