• Question: could ebola cause a global pandemic

    Asked by potato patroller1 to Frank, Ian, Isabel, Jared, Zena on 16 Mar 2015.
    • Photo: Zena Hadjivasiliou

      Zena Hadjivasiliou answered on 16 Mar 2015:

      Any virus or disease that is easily transmittable has a small risk of causing a pandemic. Doctors and nurses and other specialists around the world are trying really hard to sustain these kinds of outbreaks and are doing a pretty good job at it!

      I think it is not worth worrying about ebola turning into a pandemic, hopefully there will be a treatment for it soon too which will make it even less likely that it will turn into a pandemic.

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