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It’s hard to tackle an outbreak we can’t track. The United Nation’s top Ebola official in West Africa, Anthony Banbury, told the Associated Press on Monday that authorities are having trouble tracking the number of people contracting Ebola in Liberia and Sierra Leone, and where the most affected regions are in these countries. Banbury said this issue is harming efforts of controlling the disease. “The challenge is good information, because information helps tell us where the disease is, how it’s spreading and where we need to target our resources,” he said. Currently, Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra Leone need at least 5,000 more health workers to successfully fight the spread of Ebola. The UN hopes to give at least 70 percent of Ebola victims access to a treatment center. “They are extremely ambitious (goals), given the geographical spread of the disease, the numbers of people infected, the very poor information on exactly where those infected are and what the transmission patterns are,” Banbury said. “The three things we need the most are people, supplies and money.”
Posted on: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 05:12:36 +0000

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