World ‘ill-prepared’ for Ebola outbreak that’s ‘rising exponentially’ warns WHO
by: J. D. Heyes
NaturalNews.com
Tuesday, October 14, 2014
The head of the World Health Organization has said that the current Ebola outbreak is the “most severe acute health emergency in modern times,” as the disease continues to ravage West Africa and has spread to its second victim in the United States.
WHO Director-General Margaret Chan says the epidemic proves that “the world is ill-prepared to respond to any severe, sustained, and threatening public health emergency,” in a statement to a regional health conference in Manila, the Philippine capital.
She also said that new cases of Ebola are “rising exponentially” in the three hardest-hit African nations of Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone.
“I have never seen a health event threaten the very survival of societies and governments in already very poor countries,” she said. “I have never seen an infectious disease contribute so strongly to potential state failure.”
Britain’s The Telegraph newspaper reported that Chan’s statement was read at the conference by a WHO official who said she could not attend because “she is fully occupied with coordinating the international response to what is unquestionably the most severe acute public health emergency in modern times.”
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