Humanity vs. Ebola. The winning strategies in a terrifying war

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

TODAY’S TED TALK Bruce Aylward: Humanity vs. Ebola. The winning strategies in a terrifying war 19:11 minutes · TEDxPlaceDesNations “Ebola threatens everything that makes us human,” says Bruce Aylward of the World Health Organization. With calm measure, he walks us through how the Ebola epidemic exploded — and how international alarm only fed the exponential growth of the problem. He shares four strategies critical to beating Ebola — and how they are succeeding, starting in Lofa County, Liberia, which was at the center of the outbreak but where no new case has been registered in weeks. The fight against Ebola is not won, he underscores, but if we do things right, we can look optimistically at our ability to fight back against epidemics.  Watch now » PLAYLIST OF THE DAY The future of medicine Take this tour of medicine's future with some of the trailblazing doctors charting its course. Once you've seen a transplantable human kidney created from a 3D printer, almost anything is imaginable ... Watch » 11 talks · Total run time 2:23:23