Ruth Alexander
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4,250 appearances
120 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2011
last heard Aug 2018
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On July 20th, a man who was ill flew from Liberia to Lagos before exit screening was introduced.
He collapsed at the Nigerian airport and was taken to hospital.
Three days later, it was confirmed that he had Ebola.
Medical experts linked 898 contacts to him, primary, secondary and tertiary.
Had he not collapsed at the airport and got into the centre of Lagos, a city with a population of over 20 million people, the number of contacts would have risen rapidly.
You're listening to More or Less on the BBC World Service.
I'm Ruth Alexander.
The United Nations have appealed for nearly $2 billion in funding to tackle the Ebola crisis.
Some governments have rallied to the cause, but others not so much.
Spain, Norway and Luxembourg donate less to battle Ebola than IKEA.
So that's three rich countries outspent by a furniture shop.
I know IKEA is a big shop with stores in 37 countries, but it is still just a shop.
Can this really be true then?
And what about IKEA's donation, a not insignificant sum for a shop?
There's a book coming, isn't there?
All right, thanks, Ben.
Well, that's all we have time for this week.
If you have any numbers you want investigating, please do email us at moreorless at bbc.co.uk.
You can listen to other editions of More or Less at our website, where we explore subjects from the chances of someone running a sub-two-hour marathon to whether species populations have dropped by half in the past 40 years.
So do that by going to our website, bbcworldservice.com slash moreorless.
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