The sad thing is that many of the Africans who are qualified to deal with health crises in Africa are either not here anymore - because foreign shores pay WAY better - or ARE here, and are jumping on every gravy train that comes by. And I live here and have seen this sort of thing, before anyone gets all righteous. Every single major aid project has to pay dues to local despots - who may well be government officials - before anything can get done.

Another sober, reasoned, chilling account of the wave of wilful stupidity that seems to be engulfing the US - and further afield. Hotez is superbly well qualified to comment on vaccines and public health; anyone who says otherwise is deliberately distorting the truth. I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but there really does appear to be SOMETHING going on in US/Europe that is very disturbing. Russian social media engineering, possibly??

Great piece of work! It's iniquitous how this sort of garbage gets traction. There's no proof Ebola has spread out of DRC to neighbouring countries, let alone to Mexico!