Treatment alone will not halt ebola crisis

Frontline treatment units and prevention, surveillance, and contact tracing are critical in the war on ebola, and they need to be stepped up, says Dominic MacSorley of Concern

YOU may have seen the pictures on television or in the papers, health workers in full protective equipment on the frontline of the ebola outbreak in West Africa.

They are the most instantly recognisable symbol of an epidemic that has killed nearly 3,500 people.