The humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders (MSF) warned that the Ebola outbreak progresses faster than efforts to stop it and it will take about six months to control.
"In the next six months should bring the epidemic under control. This is my intuition, "said the president of MSF, Joanne Liu, in a press conference in Geneva, after returning from a ten day trip to the affected region.
He said the key is to stabilize the situation in Liberia, a country where the number of deaths has accelerated in recent days, to contain the outbreak in the rest of West Africa.
"We've never seen this. A new strategy is needed because Ebola is not confined to a few villages, but spreads in a city of 1.3 million inhabitants and Monrovia (capital of Liberia), "said MSF responsible.
In describing what he observed during his trip, Liu said there is a climate of fear, as "wartime" in the region where the borders of the Guinea Conakry, Sierra Leone and Liberia, where the outbreak was first detected.
Liu found that the World Health Organization (WHO) took too long to declare this as an international public health emergency --decisión taken last day 8, and is now urgent to determine how this move "into concrete actions on the ground ".
Earlier, WHO recognized that the statistics of people infected and dying from Ebola are widely underestimated, which pledged to coordinate a "massive increase in international response" to this disease.
At the same time, he assured that the risk of the virus spreading on a plane is low, but supports preventive measures and other affected countries are taking at airports and entry points to detect possible infected. The current Ebola outbreak is the worst in history, with 1,069 people killed and 1,975 confirmed cases.
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