CDC Director for Zimbabwe Says Country Ready for Ebola

The Zimbabwe country director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has returned to the country after a tour of duty as an Ebola Response Team Leader in Sierra Leone. The CDC director for Zimbabwe, Dr. Peter Kilmarx, says West Africa was hit by Ebola when it was least expecting it. Therefore, it has taken time to contain it. He said in the part of Sierra Leone he visited, more than 80 percent of the population is living on less than $2 a day and that...

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