CDC warns 500,000 will be infected with Ebola by January as effort to contain the virus fail
EBOLA will claim 6800 new victims this month. By January, the number infected could soar to 500,000, the Centre for Disease Control warns.
The startling new estimates, reported in the Washington Post today and due to be released later this week, is a vast increase over World Health Organisation estimates released last month which said up to 20,000 would be exposed before ebola was controlled.
A study published in PLoS Outbreaks on Friday states mass quarantine efforts appear to have made the outbreak worse.
“There may be other reasons for the worsening of the outbreak spread, including the possibility that the virus has become more transmissible, but it’s also possible that the quarantine control efforts actually made the outbreak spread more quickly by crowding people together in unsanitary conditions,” research professor Sherry Towers of Arizona State University wrote.
EBOLA will claim 6800 new victims this month. By January, the number infected could soar to 500,000, the Centre for Disease Control warns.
The startling new estimates, reported in the Washington Post today and due to be released later this week, is a vast increase over World Health Organisation estimates released last month which said up to 20,000 would be exposed before ebola was controlled.
A study published in PLoS Outbreaks on Friday states mass quarantine efforts appear to have made the outbreak worse.
“There may be other reasons for the worsening of the outbreak spread, including the possibility that the virus has become more transmissible, but it’s also possible that the quarantine control efforts actually made the outbreak spread more quickly by crowding people together in unsanitary conditions,” research professor Sherry Towers of Arizona State University wrote.
In a desperate move, most of the Sierra Leone’s six million people were confined to their homes from midnight on Friday for three days. Only essential workers such as health professionals and security forces exempt.
The projection comes a week after the United States initiated a $750 million program to establish 1700-beds in treatment facilities in Liberia.
Late last week, the United Nations voted to establish an emergency medical mission.
The disease continues to attack those attempting to stem the epidemic.
Today, Spain is sending a plane to fly a Catholic missionary infected with the deadly Ebola virus home from Sierra Leone.
Brother Manuel Garcia Viejo, 69, director of a hospital in the Sierra Leonean town of Lunsar, “has tested positive (for Ebola) and has expressed his desire to be transferred to Spain”, the health ministry said in a statement.
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EBOLA will claim 6800 new victims this month. By January, the number infected could soar to 500,000, the Centre for Disease Control warns.
The startling new estimates, reported in the Washington Post today and due to be released later this week, is a vast increase over World Health Organisation estimates released last month which said up to 20,000 would be exposed before ebola was controlled.
A study published in PLoS Outbreaks on Friday states mass quarantine efforts appear to have made the outbreak worse.
“There may be other reasons for the worsening of the outbreak spread, including the possibility that the virus has become more transmissible, but it’s also possible that the quarantine control efforts actually made the outbreak spread more quickly by crowding people together in unsanitary conditions,” research professor Sherry Towers of Arizona State University wrote.
EBOLA will claim 6800 new victims this month. By January, the number infected could soar to 500,000, the Centre for Disease Control warns.
The startling new estimates, reported in the Washington Post today and due to be released later this week, is a vast increase over World Health Organisation estimates released last month which said up to 20,000 would be exposed before ebola was controlled.
A study published in PLoS Outbreaks on Friday states mass quarantine efforts appear to have made the outbreak worse.
“There may be other reasons for the worsening of the outbreak spread, including the possibility that the virus has become more transmissible, but it’s also possible that the quarantine control efforts actually made the outbreak spread more quickly by crowding people together in unsanitary conditions,” research professor Sherry Towers of Arizona State University wrote.
In a desperate move, most of the Sierra Leone’s six million people were confined to their homes from midnight on Friday for three days. Only essential workers such as health professionals and security forces exempt.
The projection comes a week after the United States initiated a $750 million program to establish 1700-beds in treatment facilities in Liberia.
Late last week, the United Nations voted to establish an emergency medical mission.
The disease continues to attack those attempting to stem the epidemic.
Today, Spain is sending a plane to fly a Catholic missionary infected with the deadly Ebola virus home from Sierra Leone.
Brother Manuel Garcia Viejo, 69, director of a hospital in the Sierra Leonean town of Lunsar, “has tested positive (for Ebola) and has expressed his desire to be transferred to Spain”, the health ministry said in a statement.
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