This is such a yikes quote: "So while community spread in the West is new this year, for years the rich world ignored a growing public health problem in Nigeria in a way that eventually led to spillover."
I'm currently living in NYC so this is something I've had my eye on the past month or two, but I haven't seen the mainstream media discuss the fact that the outbreak has been ongoing for years in other parts of the world. If only we had learned from our mistakes with Covid and actually took budding viral spreads seriously. :/
Exactly! And anecdotally speaking, almost every single one that I entered as a kid smelled like urine. Not that it ever stopped us from playing in it, but even as kids we knew that it wasn't a clean place.
I'm currently living in NYC so this is something I've had my eye on the past month or two, but I haven't seen the mainstream media discuss the fact that the outbreak has been ongoing for years in other parts of the world. If only we had learned from our mistakes with Covid and actually took budding viral spreads seriously. :/