In the documentary, “Outbreak”, Doctors Without Borders attempts to stop the spread of the epidemic could be classified as primary and secondary prevention. The organization’s efforts mainly consisted of either isolating or quarantining people from the population with the goal of preventing the spread of the virus to the population, which fits the definition of primary prevention. Another means of primary prevention was a massive educational effort to inform people about the truths of Ebola (modes of transmission, symptoms, etc.) this combated the mass hysteria and further protected the population. Although not emphasized as much in the documentary to primary prevention, Doctors without Borders treated those in the early stages of Ebola and
