There are some parallels that have been drawn with the h i v epidemic. In its early days, of course, few people were concerned because it wasn't in the so called general population. It was just gay men. And back in the eighties, adverse public health adverds telling people how to protect selves, were very general. There is now a danger that has become a threat to us all. The vilus con be pssed turing sexual aast om an infected person. Any one can get it, man or woman. This time around we have a vaccine, and gay and bisexual men have readily lined up for the jab which will make a huge difference.
As the first fatal cases outside Africa are reported, we investigate the response to the disease, and the parallels with the early days of HIV. Nuclear waste has been stockpiled in supposedly temporary pools for decades; our correspondent visits the first place it is being permanently entombed. And where education is failing even amid encouraging enrolment numbers.
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