Bono: Ebola is what happens when promises are broken

From ONE Thu Nov 20 2014, 18:50:00

This piece was originally published in The Huffington Post.  Diseases do a lot of different things, all vicious, but there's one thing they've got in common: they find our vulnerabilities and exploit them. The Ebola outbreak in West Africa -- and the world's inept initial response to it -shows how fragile we are on all...

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