Word: kikwit
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...take-home lesson of the 1995 epidemic was simple: poor, under-resourced hospitals in which basic elements of public health are ignored serve as vectors for epidemics. There never would have been an Ebola epidemic in Kikwit had there not been a looted, decrepit hospital into which the first handful of cases were admitted. Once inside a facility that lacked any modicum of hygienic practices the virus spread rapidly, first claiming large numbers of health care workers, and then their patients...
Laurie Garrett is a reporter for Newsday and the author of Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health. She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the 1995 Ebola outbreak in Kikwit, Zaire...