Outbreak Culture: The Ebola Crisis and the Next Epidemic, With a New Preface and Epilogue

Secrecy, Competition, Misinformation, and Poor Coordination plague nearly every major public health crisis-and with the COVID-19 pandemic we are once again seeing their deadly consequences. When Ebola broke out across West Africa in 2014, Dr. Sheik Humarr Khan, a world-famous expert in viral hemorrhagic fever, worked under impossible conditions to save patients and their families until he was infected himself and died of the disease. Dr. Pardis Sabeti, who worked with Dr. Khan, and her Puli...