Ebola Control Goes ‘Medieval’: From Patient Zero To Pandemic In 7 Months

Wednesday, August 13, 2014
By Paul Martin

by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
08/13/2014

A report in The New England Journal of Medicine traces the spread of the recent Ebola outbreak from Gueckedou, Guinea, to nations worldwide. As The NY Times reports, West African governments have gone ‘medieval’ as they have revived a disease-fighting tactic not used in nearly a century: the “cordon sanitaire,” in which a line is drawn around the infected area and no one is allowed out. And most worryingly, Reuters reports that a nurse who had close contact with a Liberian Ebola patient skipped quarantine in Lagos and went to her home in the eastern city of Enugu, where she made contact with 20 other people.

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