Breakthrough
Dr. Tom Frieden: Protecting the World from the Next Pandemic
It wasn’t just luck that the Ebola epidemic didn’t spread once it reached Lagos. Here’s what other countries can learn from Nigeria’s effective response.
A horror never before seen unfolded in late spring and summer 2014: the first urban Ebola epidemic in human history.
As Ebola spread through the densely populated urban center of Monrovia, Liberia, cases overwhelmed the country’s fragile health infrastructure. Hospitals and Ebola treatment units overflowed with sick and suffering patients; television crews filmed people dying in the streets.
