Gupta: We’re going to see Ebola around the world
CNN.com
August 3rd, 2014
Fareed speaks with Sanjay Gupta, CNN’s chief medical correspondent, about the recent outbreak of Ebola. Watch the full interview on “Fareed Zakaria GPS,” this Sunday at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. ET on CNN.
Sanjay, how has this been blocked in the past? Why does this seem unprecedented? Is there something different right now?
You know, in a morbid way, it’s because it killed so quickly – it would just burn out. You imagine these remote villages. People weren’t moving around as quickly. And the Ebola virus – they would die and before they could start to spread it…it’s awful to think about, but that’s what was happening.
Now, you have a more mobile group. You have more roads between some of these smaller villages, such as in Guinea, where this originated, and the capital city of Conakry. There are roads. There are all these good passageways now back and forth. And so I think that part of it is certainly contributing. There’s also this idea that there’s a mistrust – I think a little bit of distrust, maybe – even of health care professionals. In part, that’s fueled by the fact that there’s no good anti-viral, there’s no good vaccine. So we need to see health care workers show up, they’re not offering some panacea to what is happening here.
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