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Mr James Macharia, why are medics unprepared to handle Ebola?

We have been hearing and reading about Ebola in the last few months and instead of going further away from being a serious threat it is has become catastrophic. People are dying in West Africa at alarming rates and there is no cure in sight.

Up until recently, I was going about my daily life conscious about Ebola and its deadly effects but comforted in the knowledge that the government is in control of the situation and should there be an outbreak, it would be contained.

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