The President of the World Bank, Jim Kim, got it right when he said last night of the international community:

It’s late, really late… We were tested by Ebola and we failed. We failed miserably in our response… Every developed country should be prepared to send trained medical staff to West Africa… We don’t need to stop all travel from these countries. It’s going to be impossible to stop people. The way to stop the flow the patients from these countries getting to the rest of the world is to have programmes that will treat people (in their home countries) and increase survival dramatically. It’s possible.”

But it isn’t nearly happening. The WHO reports already 3,900 deaths in West Africa from Ebola, though with no sign that the epidemic was being brought under control. Continue reading →