Ebola Outbreak Continues: Deaths Increasing Again
Chris Carrington
The Daily Sheeple
June 11th, 2014
The Ebola outbreak in West Africa has continued to simmer, but the World Health organization is now reporting a surge in new cases. This could partly be due to people having a mistrust of medical treatment and removing their family members from medical facilities and hospitals contrary to the advice of doctors
The death toll from Ebola in Sierra Leone has doubled to at least 12 in a week, local health authorities said on Monday, deepening the spread of a disease that has killed over 200 people in Guinea and Liberia.
The mounting deaths in Sierra Leone, which had been spared cases for months after Ebola was confirmed in the region in March, underscore the challenges weak health systems face tackling one of the deadliest diseases on the planet. Amara Jambai, Sierra Leone’s Director of Disease Prevention and Control, said all the confirmed deaths in Sierra Leone were in the east, mainly in the Kailahun district on the border with Guinea.
“It is very difficult for us to ascertain community deaths at this moment, but the 12 deaths are the ones the hospital can definitely confirm to have died of Ebola,”
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