Summary
West Africa’s Ebola epidemic exposed severe fragility in health, governance, economic and social systems, rapidly overwhelming national capacity and requiring international intervention.
Cascading Systems Affected
- Health care systems and medical supply chains
- Agriculture, trade & food distribution
- International travel
- Education, labour and social stability
- Governance and political legitimacy
Impacts
- 11,000+ deaths
- Widespread economic collapse & humanitarian crisis
- Restructuring of WHO emergency response systems