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The Long Tail of Ebola: Depressing African Economic Progress

January 12, 2015 By Maryn Leave a Comment

EpSos.de (CC), Flickr

EpSos.de (CC), Flickr

It has almost completely vanished from the news in the United States, but Ebola persists in three countries in Africa: Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra Leone. The World Health Organization’s update today puts the case toll at 21,171 in those three countries, with 8,371 deaths. (Eight thousand deaths. Think about that, for a minute.)

But the uncomfortable reality is that the impact of Ebola reaches far beyond those individual cases. In reports issued today and in December — which I missed at the time, so am bumping it back up for reading now — the World Bank predicts that the disease will cripple the economies of these countries into the future.

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Filed Under: Science, Science Blogs, Superbug Tagged With: Ebola, economics

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