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Welcome to Scientific American Science Talk posted on March 26th, 2015. I'm Steve Murski.

On this episode, the greatest threat by far is that we don't learn the lessons that we should learn. That's Kiji Fukuda, Assistant Director General for Health Security at the World Health

Organization talking about Ebola.

On March 24th, he reviewed the current Ebola outbreak in a talk at the Institute of Medicine

Forum on Microbial Threats Conference held at the Pan American Health Organization in Washington.

The session concentrated on the Ebola epidemic in

West Africa. Scientific Americans Dina Fine Marin was in attendance and spoke to Facuda. Here is an

edited version of their conversation, which lasts for just under 10 minutes. Within the course of

the response to Ebola for more than a year now, what has most surprised

you or what has been most memorable?

I think the most surprising thing was that even though intellectually you know that if you take something that you're familiar with

and you put it in a new context, you can be dealing with a very different phenomenon.

And so here, if you take Ebola in which we've had, again, experience with over 30 outbreaks

over some decades, and you get a certain image

of what it is that you're dealing with with something like Ebola.

And then if you fast forward to this current outbreak in which, in fact, you're dealing

...