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...Ebola: Doctors Without Borders Shows How to Manage a Plague

Despite MSF’s appeals all summer long to the WHO, the United Nations, Unicef, and foreign governments, only in the last few weeks has the international community, led by the U.S., the U.K., France, and Cuba, begun to act in West Africa. For the last seven months the world’s first, best—and in Guinea, only—defense against Ebola has been a 43-year-old, idealistic, impatient, and often imperious group of doctors in midcareer, with a higher-than-average threshold for risk and a tendency to extend their middle finger.