While the current Ebola outbreak threatens to affect up to 20 thousand people in West Africa, the World Health Organization (WHO) presented a roadmap to coordinate international efforts to end the epidemic.
WHO seeks to control HIV transmission worldwide within six to nine months, according to a statement issued yesterday where he also referred to the need to address, in parallel, the socioeconomic impact of this outbreak.
That roadmap answers the urgent need to expand ostensibly international response to a crisis, which experts still not reached its critical moment, because 40 percent of the cases have occurred in recent weeks.
According to the statement from the WHO, the platform should facilitate the provision of essential services such as food and other supplies, water and sanitation, and primary health care.
The disease has killed at least 552 thousand people in various states of West Africa, three thousand 96 diagnosed cases. This is the greatest and most deadly outbreak since the virus was discovered in 1976 in central Africa. The latest reports from WHO warned that Sierra Leone was the most affected with 935 cases and 380 deaths, followed by Guinea with 482 cases and 287 deaths country; Liberia has 322 cases and 225 deaths, while Nigeria thirteen cases and five deaths.
The scourge of the virus began last March in Guinea, and then quickly spread to other neighboring West African nations.
According to WHO, the death rate from the virus is 52 percent, ranging from 42 percent of Sierra Leone to 66 percent of Guinea.
The international health organization fears that the disease could affect 20,000 people in the African region, and warned that the actual number of cases may be currently up to four times higher than officially known.
In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, WHO confirmed an outbreak of Ebola that is not related to the plaguing West Africa.
A meeting of the World Health Organization will meet on 4 and 5 September to discuss possible treatments against evil, with the presence of scientists, pharmaceutical researchers, clinicians and specialists in ethics requirements.
The quotation is based on the WHO decision to apply experimental therapies.
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