Ebola scare shows that the world is still not ready for a major disease outbreak
A small outbreak of Ebola in May showed that world is still not as prepared as it should be to prevent or withstand the next disease outbreak.
When cases of Ebola were detected in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in May, local officials moved swiftly and global resources were rushed to help them. By the time the World Health Organization declared the outbreak over on July 2, only four people had died, four more had survived the disease, and the outbreak had been contained in a remote region of the country.
Three years after the was first identified in March 2014, eventually killing more than
