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Tue, 2014-11-11 12:08 — mike kraft

THE WASHINGTON POST                                                                                        Nov. 11, 2014
By Lena H. Sun, Brady Dennis and Joel Achenbach

The news out of West Africa in recent days — good and bad — has demonstrated a fundamental challenge in the fight against Ebola: The virus is more nimble than the human response to it. The landscape of infection and disease has changed dramatically in recent weeks, even as institutions have largely stuck to blueprints drafted months ago.

Archie C. Gbessay, coordinator of the Active Case Finders and Awareness Team in West Point, a large slum in Monrovia, Liberia, discusses efforts to combat Ebola with his team in a school classroom in September. (Michel du Cille/The Washington Post)

The looming question now is whether governments and other organizations can find a way to become as agile as the virus, which has vanished suddenly in some hard-hit places while erupting just as quickly in new locations.

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Wed, 2014-11-12 17:04 — mike kraft

NEW YORK TIMES                                                                              Nov. 12, 2014

By Somine Sengupta

UNITED NATIONS --We need to be more nimble and flexible,” Anthony Banbury, the head of the United Nations Mission for Ebola Emergency Response, said in an interview.

“Instead of trying to build 100-bed facilities, I believe we need smaller facilities, more geographically dispersed, and to rely more on trained national medical professionals to provide the clinical care,” he said.

The United Nations health system, however, has not been known for being nimble.

Many health advocates say the United Nations’ call for help in mid-September was very late, and the trust fund that Secretary General Ban Ki-moon established — he asked for $1 billion in contributions — is still not fully funded.

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