(NPR) – On December 27, WHO announced the results from 430 samples: The outbreak was caused by a familiar enemy — or, more accurately, multiple familiar enemies. Patients had acute respiratory infections — think COVID, flu or rhinoviruses — complicated by malaria as well as widespread malnutrition.

“If there’s a main message here it’s strengthening primary health-care systems. That’s the key,” says Dr. William Moss, a deputy director of the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute and a professor in the departments of Epidemiology, Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, and International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. (Read More)