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Ebola Spreads Throughout Sierra Leone
Kim Lewis
Last updated on: August 13, 2014 10:51 AM
As Ebola virus outbreaks continue to spread in Sierra Leone, humanitarian agencies such as the International Rescue Committee (IRC) work to contain the disease and educate communities about how to prevent contamination.
IRC country director Saffea Senessie says the country urgently needs major technical and financial resources to contain the spread of the disease.
?The current rate of the transmission of the disease is faster than the efforts to contain it,? says Senessie. ?The geographic spread of the outbreak in Sierra Leone is so fast we now have it in 12 of the 14 systems.?
?The challenge we have now is to contain the disease,? he says.
Resources are stretched too far..,
Ebola Spreads Throughout Sierra Leone
Kim Lewis
Last updated on: August 13, 2014 10:51 AM
As Ebola virus outbreaks continue to spread in Sierra Leone, humanitarian agencies such as the International Rescue Committee (IRC) work to contain the disease and educate communities about how to prevent contamination.
IRC country director Saffea Senessie says the country urgently needs major technical and financial resources to contain the spread of the disease.
?The current rate of the transmission of the disease is faster than the efforts to contain it,? says Senessie. ?The geographic spread of the outbreak in Sierra Leone is so fast we now have it in 12 of the 14 systems.?
?The challenge we have now is to contain the disease,? he says.
Resources are stretched too far..,