April 4, 2014 at 11:00 AM
Africa’s wrestling with a new Ebola outbreak. (click here) We’ll look at what’s happening, and the efforts to keep this from going global.
There’s always Ebola somewhere in Africa. The fear, panic, comes when it jumps from the wild to humans. Ebola is fierce and deadly. Terrible hemorrhaging and then, swiftly, almost certainly, death. Touch the fluids and you’re in trouble too. Family and healthcare workers, first in line for deadly danger. Right now in West Africa, Guinea, Ebola has come out of the boondocks and into the capitol city of two million. Epidemic is the word. France is on alert for spread. Canada’s had a scare. Guinea is struggling. This hour On Point: the new Ebola outbreak in West Africa, and where it goes.
Africa’s wrestling with a new Ebola outbreak. (click here) We’ll look at what’s happening, and the efforts to keep this from going global.
There’s always Ebola somewhere in Africa. The fear, panic, comes when it jumps from the wild to humans. Ebola is fierce and deadly. Terrible hemorrhaging and then, swiftly, almost certainly, death. Touch the fluids and you’re in trouble too. Family and healthcare workers, first in line for deadly danger. Right now in West Africa, Guinea, Ebola has come out of the boondocks and into the capitol city of two million. Epidemic is the word. France is on alert for spread. Canada’s had a scare. Guinea is struggling. This hour On Point: the new Ebola outbreak in West Africa, and where it goes.
