Analysis: Fighting Ebola in the age of covid
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On paper, Ebola may look like a far scarier prospect than the coronavirus that began spreading from Wuhan, China, in late 2019. Even during the first wave of the pandemic, its fatality rate peaked at less than 15 percent in the worst-hit countries and, it is now below 1 percent in much of the world.But the coronavirus traveled far more easily than Ebola.
And now, as the interest in the pandemic declines in much of the wealthy world, interest in other global health problems is dwindling, too. Speaking this week in Kampala, Ahmed Ogwell, acting head of the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, pointed to Africa’s recent experiences with monkeypox, another potentially deadly virus that has spread widely this year.
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