Ebola Crisis Intensifies as West Africa Struggles to Cope
Per Liljas
Time.com
Aug. 18, 2014
A humanitarian crisis is developing alongside the medical one, with over a million people in quarantined communities facing a lack of basic necessities
A lack of resources and chaotic conditions in West Africa are severely hampering efforts to contain the deadly Ebola outbreak.
More than 2,100 people have been infected — and 1,145 people died — in the five-month epidemic that has mainly hit Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea. In order to limit the contagion, badly affected regions of Sierra Leone and Liberia have been quarantined, leaving over a million people facing a lack of food and other necessities.
“If sufficient medication, food and water are not in place, the [quarantined communities] will force their way out to fetch food and this could lead to further spread of the virus,” Tarnue Karbbar, a worker for Plan International in Liberia’s hard-hit Lofa County, told Reuters.
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