What lessons have we learned from the 2014 ebola epidemic in West Africa?
Saturday, January 9, 2016 - 10:04
in Mathematics & Economics
An academic has analysed what could have been done differently in the efforts to prevent the Ebola epidemic in 2014. In particular, the review focuses on the limits of patient location and travel mapping as a reason why it was difficult to contain Ebola from spreading. Because nobody anticipated such an expansive epidemic, regional disease protocols were not immediately implemented, he concludes.