id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-016946-p883xjq5 Bindenagel Šehović, Annamarie Introducing Ebola (EVD): An Unnecessary Surprise 2017-05-09 .txt text/plain 4677 268 55 Ebola, and further emerging infectious diseases (EIDs), are associated with a host of negative consequences in terms of life expectancy and development in affected societies, states and economies, and also pose a threat to peace and security directly and beyond the region of West Africa. September 18, 2014: Building on the precedent set in the global response to the HIV and AIDS pandemic, the United Nation's Security Council (UNSC) passed Resolution 2177 (2014), in which it called upon immediate measures to respond to the spreading outbreak. The myriad systems' failures arising from the world's averted attention to the post-Ebola reality of West Africa also fails to address the concomitant shortages and medical challenges which undermine effective local and national response to an epidemic /pandemic threat. In addition, from this vantage point-that of the "end" of the Ebola pandemic in West Africa-it appears that the only epidemics /pandemics to which an international or global response will be mounted are those with resonance in the developed world-including in Germany. ./cache/cord-016946-p883xjq5.txt ./txt/cord-016946-p883xjq5.txt