Ebola fatality rate is drastically underestimated by health officials due to rapidly accelerating spread

Friday, October 3, 2014
By Paul Martin

by: David Gutierrez
NaturalNews.com
Friday, October 03, 2014

The fatality rate for the current Ebola outbreak in West Africa is being drastically underestimated, public health experts have warned.

For the past six months, Ebola has been spreading rapidly across several West African nations. Although prior Ebola outbreaks have had death rates of as high as 90 percent, the numbers released in the latest “Situation Report” from the World Health Organization (WHO) are significantly lower. The report notes a 53 percent overall death rate, varying from a low of 39 percent in Sierra Leone to a high of 64 percent in Guinea.

Unfortunately, this low case fatality rate (CFR) probably stems more from the difficulty of accurately counting Ebola cases and fatalities during an epidemic than from improvements in treatment or a less deadly strain of the virus, experts say.

“We are not naive about the difficulties of estimating CFR,” said Christopher Dye, director of strategy for WHO. “I’m not yet ready to believe… that CFR is much higher in Guinea than Sierra Leone. This is what the data say, taken at face value, but we need to exclude all possibility of ascertainment bias before believing this to be the truth.”

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