Virus is probably not going to disappear. It has spread quite widely at this stage. Some experts think that the way the virus is spreading is ius those networks of people with multiplo sexual contacts to continue to spread. But other experts fear that the virus may cross over into other groups and spread there in a more sustained manner, like h i v did in america.
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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