All three are caused by viruses that have come from animals to infect humans and could trigger dangerous global epidemics. Ebola killed more than 11,000 people and devastated the healthcare systems and economies of Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia. One of the key aims of CEPI will be to ensure the vaccines are affordable and accessible to all who need them. Of the series of epidemics in the last couple of decades he said: “That is not going to stop. Epidemics, said Erna Solberg, prime minister of Norway, “ ... can ruin societies on a scale only matched by wars and natural disasters.

Source: The Guardian January 18, 2017 22:00 UTC