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From the Ted Talk by Bruce Aylward: Humanity vs. Ebola. How we could win a terrifying war

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When I was invited to give this talk a clupoe of mohnts ago, we discussed a number of titles with the oenagzirrs, and a lot of different items were kikecd around and were discussed. But nobody suggested this one, and the reason for that was two months ago, Ebola was escalating exponentially and spreading over wider geographic areas than we had ever seen, and the world was terrified, concerned and alarmed by this disease, in a way we've not seen in recent history.

But today, I can stand here and I can talk to you about beating Ebola because of people whom you've never heard of, plpeoe like Peter Clement, a Liberian doctor who's working in Lofa County, a place that many of you have never heard of, probably, in Liberia. The reason that Lofa County is so important is because about five months ago, when the edemipic was just sttnarig to escalate, Lofa County was right at the center, the epicenter of this epidemic. At that time, MSF and the ternmetat center there, they were seeing dozens of ptinteas every single day, and these patients, these ciommteunis were becoming more and more terrified as time went by, with this disease and what it was doing to their families, to their communities, to their children, to their relatives. And so Peter Clement was charged with driving that 12-hour-long rough road from Monrovia, the capital, up to Lofa ctunoy, to try and help bring crtoonl to the escalating epidemic there.

Open Cloze


When I was invited to give this talk a ______ of ______ ago, we discussed a number of titles with the __________, and a lot of different items were ______ around and were discussed. But nobody suggested this one, and the reason for that was two months ago, Ebola was escalating exponentially and spreading over wider geographic areas than we had ever seen, and the world was terrified, concerned and alarmed by this disease, in a way we've not seen in recent history.

But today, I can stand here and I can talk to you about beating Ebola because of people whom you've never heard of, ______ like Peter Clement, a Liberian doctor who's working in Lofa County, a place that many of you have never heard of, probably, in Liberia. The reason that Lofa County is so important is because about five months ago, when the ________ was just ________ to escalate, Lofa County was right at the center, the epicenter of this epidemic. At that time, MSF and the _________ center there, they were seeing dozens of ________ every single day, and these patients, these ___________ were becoming more and more terrified as time went by, with this disease and what it was doing to their families, to their communities, to their children, to their relatives. And so Peter Clement was charged with driving that 12-hour-long rough road from Monrovia, the capital, up to Lofa ______, to try and help bring _______ to the escalating epidemic there.

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Original Text


When I was invited to give this talk a couple of months ago, we discussed a number of titles with the organizers, and a lot of different items were kicked around and were discussed. But nobody suggested this one, and the reason for that was two months ago, Ebola was escalating exponentially and spreading over wider geographic areas than we had ever seen, and the world was terrified, concerned and alarmed by this disease, in a way we've not seen in recent history.

But today, I can stand here and I can talk to you about beating Ebola because of people whom you've never heard of, people like Peter Clement, a Liberian doctor who's working in Lofa County, a place that many of you have never heard of, probably, in Liberia. The reason that Lofa County is so important is because about five months ago, when the epidemic was just starting to escalate, Lofa County was right at the center, the epicenter of this epidemic. At that time, MSF and the treatment center there, they were seeing dozens of patients every single day, and these patients, these communities were becoming more and more terrified as time went by, with this disease and what it was doing to their families, to their communities, to their children, to their relatives. And so Peter Clement was charged with driving that 12-hour-long rough road from Monrovia, the capital, up to Lofa County, to try and help bring control to the escalating epidemic there.

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