For forty-two days prior to the announcement, no new cases had been reported. This Tuesday, the World Health Organization declared that the Ebola virus was no longer being transmitted in the Republic of Guinea, where the outbreak originated, in 2013.
The Ebola epidemic in West Africa was largely defeated. So here, as penance for my sins of omission, are some thoughts on six uplifting developments from the past twelve months.ġ. Generally speaking, good-news stories aren’t as dramatic or as salient as bad news, so journalists and news organizations tend to give them short shrift. Here at home, meanwhile, the nightly news served up a steady diet of police shootings and gun massacres, the deadliest of which-a rampage in San Bernardino, California-was carried out by a radicalized American-born Muslim and his Pakistani wife.īut 2015, believe it or not, was also a year of positive developments, many of which were underreported. From the attack at the Charlie Hebdo offices, in Paris, in early January, to the downing of Germanwings Flight 9525, in March, to the bodies of Syrian refugees washing up on the shores of the Mediterranean in the summer to the second terrorist outrage in Paris, in November, many of the headlines from overseas were grim. “Why would I want to read that?” It was a fair question, and, reflecting back on 2015, it’s easy to see how many people could have adopted the same attitude. When I was younger, I once asked my mother why she didn’t read the newspaper on a regular basis. Photograph by Samuel Aranda / The New York Times via Redux
A Doctors Without Borders health worker holds three-week-old Nubia Soumah, the last known Ebola patient in active treatment in the world, at a treatment center in Conakry, Guinea, in November, 2015.
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