#Ebola in Sierra Leone: “If we had lost Freetown...”
▻http://crofsblogs.typepad.com/h5n1/2015/03/ebola-in-sierra-leone-if-we-had-lost-freetown.html
The experts believed it was impossible to stop the virus, which has proven fatal in more than half of cases, from taking hold in the city’s densely populated shanty towns.
He said: “They showed us some very, very simple #graphs, which showed the #exponential curve still rising.”
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The #model may have been wrong, but it doubtless put the British in a suitable frame of mind. No doubt we will hear more now-it-can-be-told stories when Ebola is (for now) stamped out. But the real scare stories will stay with the NGOs, health agencies, and senior bureaucrats, to be shared late at night after enough drinks, and very rarely shared at all with spouses.