Race for a Cure

摘要

With an outbreak of the deadly, untreat-able Ebola virus in Uganda, it's hard not to ask: Could an epidemic happen here? As Gwyneth Paltrow demonstrated in the 2011 movie Contagion, there's nothing to stop a killer virus from hitching a ride on a world traveler and turning a local sneeze into a global fever. In fact, in 2008 two women visited a bat-filled cave in Uganda and managed to bring the Marburg virus, a close and equally deadly relative of Ebola, back to both Europe and the U.S.