Don’t wait for an Ebola outbreak to vaccinate people against it

(Nature) Uganda’s most recent Ebola outbreak should be a wake-up call to the world. Last October, just 3 weeks into the outbreak, the disease spread to Kampala, a well-connected city of 1.5 million people. From there, it might easily have entered other countries. As the incident manager at the Ugandan Ministry of Health, I coordinated all technical and operational aspects of the Ebola response. We worked tirelessly to curtail the spread, and declared the end of the outbreak on 11 January. But the quarantines and lockdowns came at a high cost, especially for the country’s poorest people.