http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/11/ebola-crisis-outpaced-epidemic-msf-uk-mps
The Ebola epidemic is still outstripping efforts to contain it, according to doctors from M?decins Sans Fronti?res who have mounted most of the early response in west Africa.
Speaking to MPs from the House of Commons international development committee, MSF?s head of UK programmes said the apparent decline in numbers in Liberia did not signal the end of the epidemic.
?We are still being outpaced,? said Andr? Heller-Perrache . ?There are far more actors on the ground but we are still being outpaced by it, with Sierra Leone being the most concerning case we have.?
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Prof John Edmunds, from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, who in September called the outbreak a potential doomsday scenario, said he would not say that the nightmare had been averted. ?Things have improved dramatically in Liberia now ? cases were doubling every two weeks. Now there is a turnaround and they are declining.
?The number of cases in Liberia has flattened out. The increase has stopped and come down, but we haven?t got rid of Ebola. In Guinea and Sierra Leone the rate of increase hasn?t really changed much at all.?
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Edmunds said more staff were critical to the Ebola response. ?There are not many UK health workers out there at the moment. There is no point opening new treatment centres if there is nobody to staff them,? he told MPs.
?This needs to be much more urgent on the part of the NHS for our own good. If we don?t stop this epidemic in west Africa, we are going to get cases in the UK.?
The Ebola epidemic is still outstripping efforts to contain it, according to doctors from M?decins Sans Fronti?res who have mounted most of the early response in west Africa.
Speaking to MPs from the House of Commons international development committee, MSF?s head of UK programmes said the apparent decline in numbers in Liberia did not signal the end of the epidemic.
?We are still being outpaced,? said Andr? Heller-Perrache . ?There are far more actors on the ground but we are still being outpaced by it, with Sierra Leone being the most concerning case we have.?
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Prof John Edmunds, from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, who in September called the outbreak a potential doomsday scenario, said he would not say that the nightmare had been averted. ?Things have improved dramatically in Liberia now ? cases were doubling every two weeks. Now there is a turnaround and they are declining.
?The number of cases in Liberia has flattened out. The increase has stopped and come down, but we haven?t got rid of Ebola. In Guinea and Sierra Leone the rate of increase hasn?t really changed much at all.?
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Edmunds said more staff were critical to the Ebola response. ?There are not many UK health workers out there at the moment. There is no point opening new treatment centres if there is nobody to staff them,? he told MPs.
?This needs to be much more urgent on the part of the NHS for our own good. If we don?t stop this epidemic in west Africa, we are going to get cases in the UK.?