Foreign Affairs: An Unnecessary Plague
Jessica Hatcher, journalist

An Ebola outbreak in Guinea “has spread to neighboring Liberia, with additional cases suspected in Sierra Leone, Ghana, and Mali. … What’s particularly disturbing about the present crisis, however, is that some infections could have been prevented. For years, the United States has been developing preventatives and treatments for Ebola, which would both provide defense if Ebola were used in warfare and reduce the spread of an outbreak of the disease. But, despite lobbying from scientists amid this latest outbreak, the drugs have not been put to the test. … If anything is capable of expediting the release of safe and effective Ebola drugs, it may be the U.S. government…” (4/28).