In europe, only about a hundred and 30 of more than 13 thousand cases have needed clinical care. People can pick it up from infected bedding, cloths or utensils that have been used by an infected person. Most of the infection sylvea appears to be in men who have sex with men. It is most easily transmitted through very close bodily contact which can include sex.
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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