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Tragically, the Ebola outbreak in West Africa painfully reminds us of the fragile state of health infrastructure in poor countries — as well as of the seemingly limited impact of global health governance.
Though cold comfort, many of the experimental drugs that could help defeat Ebola also remind us of the benefits of military and civilian biodefense R&D.
Biodefense efforts try to limit the damage from biological weapons. The Soviet Union investigated Ebola as a biological weapon during the Cold War, although the Soviets didn't mass produce the virus as a weapon — in contrast...
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