Lawrence O. Gostin (Georgetown), James G. Hodge Jr. (ASU), and Scott Burris (Temple): Is the United States Prepared for Ebola? Richard Preston goes inside the Ebola wars: As the epidemic widens, the virus is mutating and geneticists are racing to keep up. Within the escalating debate over how to manage potential threats to public health, the line between vigilance and hysteria can be blurry. Yes, Ebola is scary — but the system is working. To put it bluntly: We’ve entrusted our national medical system to the managerial competence and goodwill of the Rick Scotts of the world, and that is much scarier than a podium fan. Alice Robb on how fear of Ebola could make people more likely to vote conservative. Scientists also lying about Ebola, explains George F. Will. Eric Boehlert on when conservative media didn't care Bush's bird flu czar had no medical experience blog. Politicians who say “I'm not a scientist” on climate offer their advice on Ebola. Howard Markel on what a past epidemic teaches us about Ebola: Lessons from the cholera scare of 1892. Nigeria stopped its Ebola outbreak cold — here’s how it happened. The efforts of Cuba and its doctors on Ebola are putting America’s contributions to shame. Did austerity bring on the Ebola crisis? Joshua Holland interviews Terry O'Sullivan, an expert in the dynamics of catastrophic disease outbreaks, on the high human cost of cutbacks to public-health funding. Julia Belluz on the real lesson of Ebola in Dallas: This virus is very difficult to spread. Updating a chronicle of suffering: The Hot Zone, the nonfiction thriller about Ebola that Richard Preston wrote 20 years ago, is back on best-seller lists.
