The Ebola virus has raised its ugly head again, resulting in hundreds of deaths across West Africa. So far homeopathy hasn’t been used as a preventative for this particular disease, but several remedies have been flagged in materia medicas that produce symptoms similar to it and so have a good chance of either treating or preventing it.

And how good is homeopathy at preventing serious epidemic disease? Very good, according to recent and past accounts. Read how governments have used it to protect against malaria in India; meningococcal disease in Brazil; Japanese encephalitis in India; dengue fever in Brazil, India, Colombo and Thailand; leptospirosis in Cuba; and epidemic fever in India. This pdf compilation also contains other medical, non-government and historical uses of homeoprophylaxis.