In the early months of the Ebola crisis, schools and other public meeting places were considered a danger zone for transmission. Now, they could be a key front in the fight against the disease.
The Guinean minister of health announced Friday that schools will reopen today, only days after a World Health Organization report stated that new Ebola cases were at their lowest in the country since August.
But is it tempting fate to open schools when new infections in the last 21 days reportedly number in the hundreds, and while Ebola-related violence reflects fear of the disease?