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The Big Story: Ebola Outbreak – How prepared is Singapore?

Singapore is stepping up health measures after the World Health Organization declared the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda a global public health emergency.

What is making experts especially concerned? This outbreak involves the rare Bundibugyo strain, a strain with no approved vaccine and no targeted treatment currently available.

So what exactly makes this strain different from previous Ebola outbreaks, and how prepared are we if the virus reaches our shores?

On MONEY FM 89.3’s The Big Story: Ebola Outbreak – How prepared is Singapore? (featured on the Your Way Home with Hongbin Jeong evening show), Hongbin Jeong speaks to Professor Dale Fisher, Director of the Centre for Infectious Disease Emergency Response at NUS, to find out more.

(Access the full podcast on Omny.fm)