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    Posted: August 26 2014 at 6:46am
 

'Perfect storm' for Ebola to spread, says virus pioneer

Peter Piot, the Belgian scientist who co-discovered the Ebola virus in 1976, on Tuesday said a "perfect storm" in West Africa had given the disease a chance to spread unchecked.

"We have never seen an ( Ebola) epidemic on this scale," Piot was quoted by the French daily Liberation as saying.

"In the last six months, we have been witnessing what can be described as a 'perfect storm' -- everything is there for it to snowball."

The epidemic "is exploding in countries where health services are not functioning, ravaged by decades of civil war," Piot said.

"In addition, the public is deeply suspicious of the authorities. Trust must be restored. Nothing can be done in an epidemic like Ebola if there is no trust."

Piot is former chief of the UN agency UNAIDS and now director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, one of the world's foremost centres of expertise on tropical disease.

In the interview, he also castigated "the extraordinary slowness" of international organisations in responding to the outbreak.

"The World Health Organization (WHO) only woke up in July," whereas the epidemic began in December last year and health experts sounded the alarm in early March, said Piot.

"There is now leadership but it is late," he said.

The epidemic has killed 1,427 people out of more than 2,600 known cases of infection, with doctors and nurses paying a particularly heavy price.

The epidemic is focussed on Liberia and Sierra Leone, which were wracked by conflict in the 1990s and the early part of the last decade, and on neighbouring Guinea.

Other cases have been recorded in Nigeria, whose north is hit by unrest, and in the Democratic Republic of Congo, whose east is in the grip of a decades-old conflict and where Ebola was first identified in 1976.

http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/health/article/2000132752/perfect-storm-for-ebola-to-spread-says-virus-pioneer


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Dr. Margaret Chan needs to step down as director of the World Health Organization which is responsible for global health leadership.

Someone else needs to step in immediately because she obviously didn't take the matter seriously enough.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Technophobe Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 26 2014 at 4:34pm
Originally posted by Elver Elver wrote:

Dr. Margaret Chan needs to step down as director of the World Health Organization which is responsible for global health leadership.

Someone else needs to step in immediately because she obviously didn't take the matter seriously enough.


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His lips or pen are moving.
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This woman is not going to step down. We need to figure out what we will do if it comes to the USA or your country. I just put a topic up and I hope you will participate in "What Do We Do?".
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote cobber Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 26 2014 at 10:34pm
We have written much about our dear leader Margaret Chan. 

She was responsible for the Hong Kong Sars cover up. Google it as its interesting reading. I cant understand why she was promoted to head of the WHO after such a performance. OR Maybe it makes perfect sense.....
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