There is no cure for Ebola, but in theory the disease should be easy to fight, Piot said.
“You need really close contact to become infected. So just being on the bus with someone with Ebola, that’s not a problem.”
Simple hygienic measures like washing with soap and water, not re-using syringes, and avoiding contact with infected corpses are sufficient to stop spread of the disease, Piot said.
“This is an epidemic of dysfunctional health systems.”
“Fear of the virus, and the lack of trust in government, in the health system, is as bad as the actual virus.”
What happens “is that a person is infected, is hospitalized, infects other patients and particularly health care workers.”
“They’re buried somewhere; around that funeral, people are infected when they touch the body, and so on. And then they get ill, and then they go somewhere else, and then they go to relatives in town, maybe because they hope to have better health care. That’s how it spreads.”
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