Ebola: Can It End Next Summer?

The West African Ebola outbreak could be under control by next summer if local and international efforts to battle it continue to grow, according to the U.N. Secretary-General. "If we continue to accelerate our response, we can contain and end the outbreak by the middle of next year," Ban Ki-moon told reporters after he and other U.N. leaders met in Washington, D.C., to discuss the situation. But he cautioned that "results to date are uneven," with slowing rates of transmission in some places and increasing rates elsewhere in the three hardest-hit countries: Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra Leone. http://www.medpagetoday.com/InfectiousDisease/Ebola/48783?xid=nl_mpt_DHE_2014-11-24&utm_content=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=DailyHeadlines&utm_source=ST&eun=g721819d0r&userid=721819&email=amydugan2%40gmail.com&mu_id=5883165&utm_term=Daily