Thursday, October 2, 2014

Ebola In The US: Uncharted Territory

Here is a very provocative essay by Mary Odum concerning how the spread of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in the US may be quite different from its spread in Africa:


The epidemiological triangle consists of host, agent, and environment. The future of this epidemic will be dependent on the different environments that it travels to, as well as host factors in different countries, and agent factors as the virus mutates. EVD has only affected low resource healthcare systems historically. What might be different in a high-resource (high-transformity) system which might make combatting this disease easier or harder?


It's a bit lengthy and arcane, but well worth your time.

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