Laurie Garrett, you wrote The Coming Plague in 1994, raising some alarming possibilities about the future of disease in the world. There's good news and there's bad news. The bad news is that most of the predictions have come true and the spread of truly difficult to treat, if not impossible to treat, infectious diseases has continued. Yes, I think a very important lesson. I hadn't thought it would be possible for those hospitals to get worse, but the civil war conditions have resulted in a situation where literally there are no sterile syringes whatsoever, there are no latex gloves for the health providers to wear even when they do surgery.
All equipment is at a level that is medieval.
If anything, I'm surprised we haven't heard of one sooner. That's the good news. The bad news is we don't have any treatment. We still don't have any idea how to effectively treat an infected individual and we still don't know where this virus lurks when it is not in human beings. We still have no idea what animal or insect species normally harbours this virus, so there's no way to predict when it will emerge again and where.