Zero infection

Science 12 December 2014: 
Vol. 346 no. 6215 p. 1271 
DOI: 10.1126/science.aaa4117

• EDITORIAL

Zero infection

1. Mark Woolhouse, 
2. Patrick Drury, 
3. Christopher Dye

1. Mark Woolhouse is a professor at the Centre for Immunity, Infection & Evolution at the University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
2. Patrick Drury is Manager of the Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network of the World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
3. Christopher Dye is the Director of Strategy in the Office of the Director General at the World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.

1. E-mail: dyec@who.int

Last month, United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim, and World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Margaret Chan held a press conference after the UN Chief Executive Board's meeting to assess the global response to the Ebola epidemic. The secretary-general's message was clear: “Our end game is not near.” To eliminate infection from the human population by mid-2015, as Ban Ki-moon hopes, the world must intensify its fight against this virus, but we should also recognize that we need better ways to combat international health hazards of all kinds.

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