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MEDICAL: DISEASES: EBOLA VIRUS :
AFRICA:
We've Made the Ebola Crisis Worse
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We've Made the Ebola Crisis Worse
Global threats can only be tackled globally - this is most unlikely to be
the last plague to threaten the world, and the next may be more infectious
By Geoffrey Lean
8:13PM BST 03 Oct 2014
The Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/ebola/
11138918/Weve-made-the-Ebola-crisis-worse.html
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It is the stuff that nightmares are made of, and day by day it is getting
worse. The Ebola epidemic, says Dr Margaret Chan, director-general of the
World Health Organisation (WHO), is now the greatest peacetime challenge
since the Second World War. Yet her own organisations tardiness, partly
caused by cuts, together with reductions in and misuse of funds
elsewhere, are largely responsible for Ebola spiralling out of control.
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Officially 7,178 people have caught the horrific disease in Guinea,
Liberia, Sierra Leone, Nigeria and Senegal: 3,338 have died. The toll is
greater than the combined total of 25 previous outbreaks of the
haemorrhagic fever in the 38 years since its discovery near Congos Ebola
river. And that is certainly a gross underestimate many more are
sickening and dying unknown in remote villages.
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Its just the beginning. At present the numbers of people infected are
thought to be doubling in under 30 days and the blue-chip US Center for
Disease Control and Prevention predicts that, if Ebola goes on
accelerating, 1.4 million West Africans could have contracted the disease
by the new year.
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Whole nations are close to collapse. Sierra Leones economy is reported to
have deflated by 30 per cent. Schools in affected countries are closed.
Harvests rot in the fields. Hospitals are so overwhelmed that they are not
merely turning away Ebola cases, but also people stricken with other
deadly diseases such as malaria. Jim Yong Kim, president of the World
Bank, has warned of impending economic disaster.
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The one saving grace is that the infectious disease spreads with
difficulty, through bodily fluids, which means it can be contained with
strong enough measures even in Africa. This is why Western health systems
are confident that they can prevent an epidemic at home. But this week
Anthony Banbury, chief of the UNs Ebola mission, raised the possibility
that the virus could mutate to spread by air, like flu.
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So why was this epidemic not contained long ago, like previous ones?
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
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