This week the world anxiously winced as Ebola spread out of Africa to the US and Spain. The traveling virus exposed some harsh new global realities: the hot zone incubator of Africa’s impoverished urbanization, persistent social inequality and decrepit public health infrastructure all linked to the rest of the planet by air travel. Nothing is any longer a world away.
In The WorldPost this week, the co-discoverer of Ebola, Peter Piot, calls for urgent logistical aid to the infected areas of Africa. World Bank President Jim Yong Kim writes that the fight against the pandemic must entail a fight against poverty …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
