WHO Sounds The Alarm On Ebola: ‘The Situation Is Deteriorating’
Pamela Engel
BusinessInsider.com
Oct. 16, 2014
While the US is panicking about three Ebola cases in one month, parts of West Africa are deteriorating rapidly, with little sign that the region is getting the outbreak under control.
Ebola has hit Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra Leone the hardest because these countries don’t have healthcare systems that are equipped to handle the disease.
Nurses at hospitals in these countries are “lightly trained and minimally protected” and Ebola patients are dying “surrounded by pools of infectious waste,” according to a report in The New York Times.
Some hospitals don’t have access to running water, soap, and clean needles, which are all crucial to controlling and preventing further spread of disease.
More than 4,000 people have died in this year’s Ebola outbreak, and most of the deaths have occurred in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. These countries are seeing “widespread and persistent” transmission of Ebola, according to the latest report from the World Health Organization.
In total, this outbreak has seen nearly 9,000 reported cases of the disease. Nearly a third of those cases have been reported in the past 21 days. That includes infections in 427 healthcare workers, 236 of whom have died.
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