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15 Med. L. Int'l 3 (2015)

handle is hein.journals/medclint15 and id is 1 raw text is: MEDICAL LAW Editorial INTERNATIONAL Imagining global health with justice: Ebola, impoverished people and health systems Shawn H.E. Harmon University of Edinburgh, UK Lawrence Gostin Georgetown University, USA; John Hopkins University, USA Liz Grant, John Gillies and Graeme Laurie University of Edinburgh, UK Medical Law International 2015, Vol. 15(1) 3-18 @ The Author(s) 2015 Reprints and permission: sagepub.co.u k/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1177/0968533215574798 mli.sagepub.corn OSAGE With disease, outbreaks are inevitable, pandemics are optional. (Larry Brilliant) Introduction Starting in West Africa and with a fatality rate exceeding 50%, the Ebola epidemic is projected to infect some 20,000 people before running its course' and has already infected many health-care workers.2 Responses to the outbreak have included refusals by local health workers to examine patients and collect samples (for fear of infection and the una- vailability of proper personal protective equipment) and assaults on health officials and 1. WHO, Ebola Response Roadmap, WHO/EVD/Roadmap/14.1 (28 August 2014). Available at: http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/131596/l/EbolaResponseRoadmap.pdf? ua= 1 (accessed 20 October 2014). 2. NPR, 'Ebola Outbreak Takes Toll On Africa's Health Workers' (1 September 2014). Available at: http://www.npr.org/2014/09/01/345044302/ebola-outbreak-takes-toll-on-africas-health- workers (accessed 20 October 2014). Corresponding author: Shawn H.E. Harmon, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH8 9YL, UK. Email: shawn.harmon@ed.ac.uk

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