Ebola, "the most dangerous disease" in the world since the advent of Aids
The director of the US Centers for Control and Prevention of Disease, which the Ebola outbreak in West Africa is the most serious epidemic knows the world since the advent of AIDS in the early eighties. Said Dr. Tom Frieden during a round table in Washington, organized by the World Bank, with the participation of heads of African countries most affected by the epidemic, and director of the International Monetary Fund Christine Lagarde and World Bank President Jim Yong Kim, the fight against Ebola "It will be a long battle ... over thirty years of work in the public health sector, show me that the only thing similar is Aids. "Frieden added, "we have to work so as not to turn this disease to AIDS last."
Kim said the need for "urgent to more health workers." Corona explained that Sierra Leone needs to bed in 1500 and 5000 thousands of nurses.
Lagarde said that "it is necessary to increase the funds allocated to address the people," pointing also to the large economic impact of the disease on the three countries most affected by any of Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone.
The official source announced in Liberia throughout the Senate elections scheduled for October 14 this indefinitely because of the epidemic of Ebola.
The President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf has taken this decision under the state of emergency declared on the sixth of August, according to a statement posted on the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
On the other hand, considered the Ernest Bai Koroma President of Sierra Leone, said the international action to respond to Ebola is not fast enough.
Koroma said during the post via video from Freetown meeting in Washington that "international action was so far slower than the pace of transmission of the disease." He added that it "must be changed."
He stressed that it is necessary "to speed up the conversion of the promises into concrete actions on the ground, and this is an urgent need."
He said UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said it is necessary to increase the current assistance "20 times" in order to address the disease.
He called on Guinean President Alpha Conde to further international assistance. "We must increase efforts to be a quick and coordinated."
On the other hand, the president of the UN mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo Martin Koehler said in a statement issued upon his return from a visit to the area Bondi (north-east of Kinshasa) that outbreaks of Ebola, "you should try to congratulate the representatives of the State and the United Nations and the Organization of Doctors Without Borders non-governmental who did an exceptional job. "
According to the World Health Organization and the Congolese government that the Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo is different from the epidemic in West Africa.
The Minister of Health Congolese Flex Kapanga Numbi on the second of October, "control" of the epidemic, but "it has not been eliminated yet."
In Madrid, the situation has deteriorated health nurse, which was hit by Ebola infection in Spain, also announced Thursday Hospital Carlos III.
An official at the hospital said the health status of Theresa Ramiro (40 years), the first person to become infected outside of Africa, "has deteriorated, but I can not provide more information."
He arrived Sudanese working in the United Nations and wounded Ebola infection to Leipzig (East) Germany this morning coming from Liberia, as local authorities said, raising to three the number of patients who are being treated in Germany.
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