The Lancet
Mar 07, 2015 Volume 385 Number 9971 p829-914 e16-e20
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/issue/current

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Morality in a time of Ebola
Arthur L Caplan
Published Online: 19 February 2015
Summary
The first true epidemic of Ebola led to widespread panic. The virus appeared in so many countries in 2014—including Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Spain, and the USA—that WHO, officials at the US National Institutes of Health and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and many other government officials around the world declared the epidemic to be out of control.1,2 Talk of desperation and apocalypse with reference to Ebola is not uncommon.3 Previous Ebola outbreaks were rapidly contained through a combination of local attentiveness, the availability of resources, focused public education, and a bit of luck.