Did you catch the article on the Ebola virus in last week’s New Yorker?
I thought I’d been keeping up with the Ebola epidemic; it’s been hard to avoid. But, I had no idea that world renown doctors and nurses had passed in Liberia due to the disease, I didn’t know what ZMapp was or how it came to be given to the American doctors and nurses that it ultimately saved. The article also goes into molecular detail about how Ebola takes over every cell in the body and how it is transmitted, and leaves off with a discussion of its mutating forms as it leaps from person to person. The article was truly fascinating.
If you haven’t read it yet, take a look: The Ebola Wars: How genomic research can help contain the outbreak.
