Seventeen years passed between the first human Bundibugyo infection and the first serious attempt to build anything against it. It took an outbreak of 900 cases to close that gap, and the speed of the response since June 1 tells you less about scientific readiness than about how this industry allocates urgency: not by the likelihood a pathogen will eventually matter, but by whether it is killing people this week.
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Infectious Disease
The Long View: The Capability Was Always There. The Outbreak Just Paid for It.
Bundibugyo had no vaccine, no treatment, no diagnostic for seventeen years. It took 900 cases to change the math.
