EBOLA IS SPREADING WILD!!!!: The deadliest Ebola epidemic the world has ever seen is spreading across West Africa, with Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone the worst affected. The death toll has topped 2,000, out of nearly 4,000 people infected. DILAPIDATED INFRASTRUCTURE Key development partners trying to help Liberia respond to the outbreak need to prepare to scale up their current efforts by three- to four-fold, the WHO said. The countries bearing the brunt of the epidemic are among the worlds poorest, with dilapidated medical infrastructures buckling under the strain. Before the outbreak, Liberia had only one doctor to treat every 100,000 patients in a total population of 4.4 million people. Now that 152 health-care workers in the country have been infected and 79 have died, the WHO said the ratio had worsened significantly. Every infection or death of a doctor or nurse depletes response capacity significantly, it said. The WHO said on Monday that one of its doctors in Sierra Leone had contracted the disease and would be evacuated. nation.co.ke/news/africa/-/1066/2446146/-/6qrhalz/-/index.html
Posted on: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 15:38:57 +0000
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