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Posted: July 01 2014 at 9:11am |
http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/ebola-sickened-travellers-may-cross-borders-who-warns-1.2689685
West African nations neighbouring those hit by the Ebola epidemic — Mali, Ivory Coast, Senegal and Guinea Bissau — should prepare for the possible arrival of travellers carrying the deadly virus, the World Health Organization said on Friday. The outbreak persists especially in forested areas of Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia, and its spread is being fuelled by unsafe burial practices that infect relatives handling bodies, the U.N. agency said. The Ebola virus epidemic in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia is "out of control," the medical charity Doctors without Borders said Monday as the World Health Organization works to enhance its response. There have been 350 deaths since the epidemic began in Guinea’s capital, Conakry, according to the WHO. The outbreak began in early December 2013 in Guinea, the European Centres for Disease Control and Prevention says. It is the deadliest outbreak since Ebola first emerged in 1976. Medcliniciancomment: the deadliest outbreak since Ebola first emerged in 1976. This calls for increased vigilance and after all Ebola is Ebola. It has a high death rate. We tracked it here as spreading to the United States. |
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http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/ebola-epidemic-unprecedented-in-west-africa-medical-aid-group-says-1.2684428
"The epidemic is out of control," said Bart Janssens, director of operations with Doctors without Borders. "With the appearance of new sites in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia, there is a real risk of it spreading to other areas." In terms of number of cases and deaths, this is the biggest outbreak of Ebola, said Marc Poncine, emergency co-ordinator for Doctors without Borders in Conakry. Poncine has also been at the centre of the epidemic in a rainforest region on the border of Sierra Leone and Liberia. The epidemic is also unprecedented in its geographical distribution, the aid agency said. Medclinician |
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