EXCERPT The U.S. military sent about 3,000 troops to West Africa to build centers like this one in recent months. They were intended as a crucial safeguard against [the Ebola epidemic]. But as the outbreak fades in Liberia, it has become clear that the disease had already drastically subsided before the first American centers were completed. Several of the U.S.-built units haven’t seen a single patient infected with Ebola. It now appears that the alarming epidemiological predictions that in large part prompted the U.S. aid effort here were far too bleak....Last week, even as international aid organizations built yet more Ebola centers, there was an average of less than one new case reported in Liberia per day. washingtonpost/world/africa/us-built-ebola-treatment-centers-in-liberia-are-nearly-empty-as-disease-fades/2015/01/18/9acc3e2c-9b52-11e4-86a3-1b56f64925f6_story.html
Posted on: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 18:35:27 +0000
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