China is at serious risk of Ebola because of large numbers of travelers from Africa and poor hospital standards, warns the scientist who discovered the disease

Thursday, October 30, 2014
By Paul Martin

Peter Piot concerned Ebola could spread to world’s most populous country
Large number of Chinese workers returning from Africa
But China’s level of infection control is ‘very poor’
Piot is the director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

By Ted Thornhill
DailyMailUK
30 October 2014

A scientist who helped to discover the Ebola virus says he is concerned the disease could spread to China given the large numbers of Chinese workers traveling to and from Africa.

Peter Piot, director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said on Thursday the scenario of the deadly virus reaching China was ‘not rocket science.’

‘The concern I have is that I don’t think you can really stop people from traveling. These patients will show up in any country in the world, but China is quite vulnerable,’ Piot said.

‘The issue is: “What is the quality, the standard of infection control?” In public hospitals in China, the ones that I’ve visited, the level of infection control is very poor,’ he said.

But Piot said China’s controls for infectious diseases have improved and authorities have become more open about public health risks since severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, broke out in southern China in 2002. SARS infected about 8,000 people worldwide, killing nearly 800.

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