3. In 2014, 'Time' magazine featured three people dressed in full medical protective gear. Which deadly disease were they trying to control?
From Quiz Time's (Non) Person of the Year
Answer:
Ebola
Ebola is a highly infectious disease, and the outbreak in western Africa was a matter of major concern. It appears to have started in late 2013 in Guinea, when a young child was infected by a bat. The disease spread rapidly through neighbouring Sierra Leone and Liberia and claimed about 10,000 lives in a 2.5-year period. The epidemic was difficult to control for many reasons including lack of medical facilities and trained medical staff, poor training, language barriers, and even religious beliefs. Assistance from WHO, Médecins Sans Frontières and other aid agencies managed to stop the spread, but the prospects of further outbreaks is high, and no efficient preventative vaccine exists.
The editor of 'Time' magazine, Nancy Gibbs, said, "The rest of the world can sleep at night because a group of men and women are willing to stand and fight. For tireless acts of courage and mercy, for buying the world time to boost its defenses, for risking, for persisting, for sacrificing and saving, the Ebola fighters are 'Time's' 2014 Person of the Year."
That says it all, wouldn't you agree?
The name of the five different cover pictures was 'Ebola Fighters', one of which depicted Foday Gallah, a Liberian ambulance driver.