United Nations: the world is losing the battle against Ebola
The Assistant Director-General, World Health Organization Bruce Aillward in Geneva, the organization recorded more than 8900 cases of Baapola and more than 4400 thousand deaths after infection with the virus since the beginning of the epidemic in West Africa.
The number of new cases is about thousand cases per week over the past few weeks. However, he stressed Aillward it is premature to say that the haemorrhagic fever is no longer spreading at a steady rate, stressing that it would be impossible to stop the spread of the fever unless there is an improvement in tracking the paths of infection in all parts of the communities and isolating new patients immediately.
The World Health Organization has repeatedly said that there are a large number of cases of undeclared in the three countries most affected -oha Liberia, Guinea and Saraleon- Understanding the size and frequency of outbreaks of the virus are important for the success of efforts to eradicate it.
Misleading data
He added that Aillward published data about the disease may also be misleading because the number of known cases of death is less than half the injuries which gives the wrong impression, explaining that the actual death rate higher and up to about 70%.
Ebola infections exceeded the 8900 (European)
Still a lot of people do not report cases of suspected infection in Baapola and continue to treat the injured at home in Sierra Leone, where health officials said it was the discovery of 18 bodies suspected to be infected with the Ebola virus last week in the area Ajabindembo near Freetown.
He warned Anthony Banbury head of the United Nations Mission in charge of the coordination of emergency response to the epidemic of Ebola, that the world is going to lose the battle against the epidemic, he is unable to stop its spread, during a meeting of the UN Security Council devoted to the spread of the virus.
An unprecedented situation
Banbury said, that "if we won the Ebola peoples of the United Nations will lose a lot. Ebola either have to stop now, or be faced with an unprecedented situation do not have a plan about it."
According to the latest WHO expectations that talked about five to ten thousand new cases a week Baapola in West Africa as of December / December next, adding that this means they will need to seven thousand beds in treatment centers, but this date will not possess, according to expectations only about 4,300 beds.
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