Ebola spreading quickly in rural Sierra Leone…”a full-blown crisis”.
RTE.ie
Sunday 02 November 2014
Ebola is spreading up to nine times faster in parts of Sierra Leone than two months ago, a report by the Africa Governance Initiative said.
“Whilst new cases appear to have slowed in Liberia, Ebola is continuing to spread frighteningly quickly in parts of Sierra Leone,” the AGI report said.
On average, 12 new cases a day were seen in the rural areas surrounding Freetown in late October, compared with 1.3 cases in early September, the report said, a nine fold increase.
Transmission was also increasing rapidly in the capital Freetown, with the average number of daily cases six times higher than two months ago.
The analysis was based on three-day averages of new cases recorded by Sierra Leone’s health ministry.
It emerged after the United States envoy to the United Nations welcomed slowing infection rates in some areas, and improved burial practices.
AGI, a support initiative set up by former British prime minister Tony Blair, said that while the picture was changing, the situation was still “a full-blown crisis”.
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