Inside story
I’m an Ebola expert – what we are seeing could be unprecedented
I’m an Ebola expert – a nightmare scenario is increasingly likely
Dr Simon Mardel is an emergency medicine practitioner who has witnessed the devastation the disease has wrought during some of the worst outbreaks in history. Here, he tells Joe Shute why this latest tragedy is like ‘watching a train crash in slow motion’ and why the true scale of how fast it is spreading remains unknown




