Establishing a Sacred Trust
This is a guest post by Colonel Clint Hinote. He is the 2014-2015 U.S. Air Force Military Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. The opinions expressed here are his own. Because what makes us...
View ArticleIs the International Response to Ebola Enough?
The Centers for Disease Control has modeled the possible spread of Ebola in Sierra Leone and Liberia. (It did not address Ebola in Guinea.) Based on its computer models, it concludes that the range of...
View ArticleEbola and Counterinsurgency—A Struggle for Legitimacy
This is a guest post by Colonel Clint Hinote. He is the 2014-2015 U.S. Air Force Military Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. The opinions expressed here are his own. As the United States sends...
View ArticleEbola Threatens ‘Africa Rising’ and Strains Relations Across the Continent: A...
This is a guest post by Brooks Marmon, Accountability Architect at the Accountability Lab. Brooks was previously based in the Lab’s Liberia office and recently completely an extended assignment in...
View ArticleEbola and Marburg
Ebola and Marburg are both hemorrhagic fevers and belong to the same family of viruses. The hosts for both are identified as animals, especially fruit bats—both diseases cross over from animals to...
View ArticleMaybe Better News on Ebola?
The New York Times and other media are reporting a drop in Ebola infection rates and empty beds in the emergency field hospitals set up by the U.S. military in Monrovia. While there is Ebola all along...
View ArticleEbola: What Happened
With a rapidly growing and urbanizing population, persistent poverty, and weak governance, Sub-Saharan Africa is likely to be the source of new epidemics that potentially could spread around the world....
View ArticleYellow Fever in Central Africa: A Preventable Epidemic
Gabriella Meltzer is a research associate in the Council on Foreign Relations Global Health program. From Ebola to Zika, recent global health crises have been defined by unpredictable outbreaks of...
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