As Devi Sridhar (UEdinburgh) warns on the new variant of Ebola currently working its way across the DRC, given that we live in an interconnected world (as the Covid pandemic demonstrated all too well):
'If your neighbour’s house is on fire, you don’t wait & watch. You help to put it out before the fire spreads to yours. That’s the interconnected world we live in, and an important lesson for all politicians watching the crisis unfold'!