SCIENTISTS ARE ASKING, IS THIS EBOLA HERE TO STAY? Every other time Ebola has made the unlikely jump from the animal world to the human one, it has been snuffed out within days, weeks or, at most, months. This time, though, in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia, the Ebola virus is raging like a forest fire (in the words of several public health officials). And some of them are raising the possibility that the outbreak-turned-full-fledged-epidemic could become fundamentally different from any other Ebola outbreak on record, in that it might stick around. “What’s always worked before – contact tracing, isolation and quarantine – is not going to work, and it’s not working now,” said Daniel Lucey, a professor of Microbiology and Immunology at Georgetown University Medical Center, who spent three weeks treating Ebola patients in Sierra Leone and will soon travel to the Liberian capital of Monrovia for another five-week stint.
Posted on: Thu, 25 Sep 2014 12:06:29 +0000
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