Understanding Ebola Is Vital, But Helping Those In Need Is A Priority
New York Times: Ebola Virus: A Grim, African Reality
David Quammen, author of “Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic”
Ebolaviruses’ “invisible immanence makes them all the more dangerous during those lulls between outbreaks, and for that reason ecological research — efforts to find the reservoir hosts, and to learn how host-to-human spillovers occur — is vitally important. … [But] Ebola in Guinea is not the Next Big One, an incipient pandemic destined to circle the world, as some anxious observers might imagine. It’s a very grim and local misery, visited upon a small group of unfortunate West Africans, toward whom we should bow in sympathy and continue sending help. It’s not about our fears and dreads. It’s about them” (4/9).
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