Posted on 08/01/2014 9:19:39 AM PDT by Citizen Zed
GENEVA — The head of the World Health Organization has told the presidents of West African nations stricken by Ebola that the outbreak is moving faster than efforts to control it.
Dr. Margaret Chan, WHO's director general, says if the outbreak continues to worsen, the consequences could be "catastrophic" in terms of lost lives and socio-economic disruption.
Dr. Chan is in Conakry, where she met Friday with the presidents of Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Ivory Coast.
WHO and the West African leaders are finalizing a $100 million plan to fight the spread of Ebola, which has claimed nearly 730 lives. Dr. Chan said more than 60 health workers are among the victims, and that some international relief workers have been infected.
The WHO chief said her hope is the plan emerging from the Conakry meeting will mark "a turning point" in the international response to the outbreak.
Several hundred medical personnel are about to be deployed to West Africa, Dr. Chan said, and an emergency committee will meet on Wednesday to assess the international implications of the outbreak.
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“spread outpaces control”
otherwise known as an OUTBREAK
this is going to be very bad
I could buy that for a dollar.
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
Kinda stiffens your spine a bit, that one. Have you read Hot Zone?
Sure have. Along time ago.
Either the health workers aren't taking precautions and safety wear seriously or this virus has mutated far past goggles and suits.
Funny how those radical population control freaks never step to the front of the line.
It could be called the FReedom.
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