Jammu, May 21 -- Conflict Zones, Climate pressures contributing to collapse of Global Healthcare
By Tirthankar Mitra
Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo has been declared to be an international public health emergency by World Health Organisation (WHO). It is much more than a timely medical alert. It is a call to seal "viral frontiers". The epidemics in fragile states are no longer local tragedies. This is an age of migration, conflict, informal economies and porous borders. Aided by these factors, public health failures travel faster than government can respond.
Ebola is a rare but severe and often fatal viral illness. It causes haemorrhagic fever, intense inflammation and organ failure. Average fatality rate is 50 per cent. But past outbre...