World Health Organization Director-General Margaret Chan issued a statement Monday at a conference in Manila calling the outbreak “the most severe, acute health emergency seen in modern times.”
She said development of a vaccine or cure for Ebola has lagged because the virus is prevalent in such poor nations.
“The outbreak spotlights the dangers of the world’s growing social and economic inequalities,” Chan added. “The rich get the best care. The poor are left to die.”
She said the outbreak is disrupting economies and societies around the world. She said 90% of economic costs of any outbreak “come from irrational and disorganized efforts of the public to avoid infection.”
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Africa has become the Black Hole of the globe.. Harboring diseases and beasts that kill without thought or blinking.
WHO in their right mind would have it any other way?
No matter how much ya toss at the ills of the world, most of it gets tossed back on you.
Disorganized and lacking focus..
Certainly not funds,, how much did Bush spend there?
Heck, Obama won’t even send his half bro in a hut a buck.
Life was never easy in Africa.. A divided continent.
And a deadly one.
Here we go again, blaming the industrialized Western nations for no cure being found yet.
I’m darned sick and tired of the West being the ‘bad-guy’ no matter what pops up.
Margaret Chan, don’t let the barn door hit ya... getting off the global stage.
Wow, that's a slap to African scientists. What, they're not as smart as Western scientists? Or would that be white scientists? Huh? Come on, Chan, come clean on where you stand.
The cure hasn’t been developed because almost no one in the world got the disease. Until a few months ago.
And even so, the death rate is not even close to Dengue fever or Malaria in similar places.
The vaccines are made for the diseases that kill the most.