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• A Bronze Kingdom lies not too far from Orlando’s International airport. This African art gallery and museum opened earlier this year and showcases bronze artwork brought from Africa. Some pieces are said to date back to the early 1600s
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• The World Health Organization warns of more than 20,000 cases by early November if help doesn’t arrive quickly in West Africa. The CDC projects 1.4 million cases by late January.
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• The ambitious scope of the intervention has impressed aid workers, who have been crying for help for months. But the plan will need to be implemented quickly to get ahead of the spread of infections.
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• The vaccine was developed by researchers at the National Institutes of Health and at Okairos, a Swiss-based biotech company owned by the British drug company GlaxoSmithKline.
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• Population growth, the cutting down of forests and increased mobility all contribute to the current crisis. “The virus hasn’t changed,” says one infectious disease expert. “Africa has changed.”
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• Early Saturday, soldiers in the tiny kingdom completely surrounded by South Africa took to the streets amid gunfire, forcing the prime minister to flee. The army has denied a takeover.
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• In 1976, scientist Peter Piot was part of the team that discovered the Ebola virus. The epidemic today in West Africa, he says, is “absolutely unexpected and unprecedented.”
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• Some governments recently said that agricultural investments should supply “culturally acceptable food.” Now they’re trying to define what that is.
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• Scientists now think the entire outbreak in West Africa was triggered by one person and then the virus took off from there. Early signs pointed to a little boy in southern Guinea.
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• The disease that has claimed over 600 lives in Liberia, and 1,400 across West Africa has had another tragic impact. People who’ve lost family members may find themselves shunned by friends and family.
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