Ebola’s Missing Vaccine: Europe Is Being Caught Unprepared by the Deadly Outbreak
By Mary Dejevski
NewsWeek.com
October 23, 2014
It is 9.30 on an ordinary Wednesday evening, and the National Express bus draws in to Liverpool coach station after the wearing six-hour journey from London. Within seconds, what would usually be a reasonably organised, even leisurely, unloading process has been replaced by scenes straight out of a television sci-fi drama.
As the driver releases the door, paramedics, seemingly wrapped in layers of plastic from head to toe, run on board and seal an elderly woman into the same sort of protective gear. Panicked passengers rush to flee any which way into the night, jostling and tripping over each other in their haste, shouting warnings to get away. The patient is lifted into one of several waiting ambulances and the vehicle speeds away, lights flashing, sirens screaming.
In due course, a statement from the Royal Liverpool Hospital says that the unnamed passenger who, it appears, was taken ill on the coach and had recently been in an unnamed part of Africa, has tested negative for Ebola. The coach station was closed for a mere half hour or so. Normal life resumes.
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