While the West scrambles to contain mpox with billion-dollar budgets, Liberia's Ebola alert reveals how Africa's hard-won epidemic preparedness—forged in the crucible of surviving the world's deadliest outbreak—now makes the continent more responsive to viral threats than its former colonial powers. The panic sparked by viral audio isn't hysteria; it's institutional memory of a healthcare system that rebuilt itself from ground zero and refuses to be caught sleeping again.

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