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Why Canada must approach Ebola outbreak like a natural disaster
Thousands of local, hundreds of foreign health workers needed to help fight contagion
By Amber Hildebrandt, CBC News Posted: Sep 05, 2014 5:00 AM ET Last Updated: Sep 05, 2014 5:00 AM ET
With dire predictions of 20,000 people ? more than six times the current toll ? becoming infected with Ebola, calls are mounting for countries, including Canada, to treat the outbreak like a natural disaster and deploy military teams.
It?s an unprecedented request, but so, too, is the outbreak.
The current outbreak is the longest and most deadly in history, infecting more than 3,500 so far according to numbers from health officials. Three of the countries affected are among the world?s poorest, with health-care systems that are on the verge of collapse.
"It's time to treat this Ebola outbreak in the way we would treat a natural disaster, because it is a natural disaster," said Dr. Keith Martin, a former Liberal MP who now heads the Washington-based Consortium of Universities for Global Health...
Why Canada must approach Ebola outbreak like a natural disaster
Thousands of local, hundreds of foreign health workers needed to help fight contagion
By Amber Hildebrandt, CBC News Posted: Sep 05, 2014 5:00 AM ET Last Updated: Sep 05, 2014 5:00 AM ET
With dire predictions of 20,000 people ? more than six times the current toll ? becoming infected with Ebola, calls are mounting for countries, including Canada, to treat the outbreak like a natural disaster and deploy military teams.
It?s an unprecedented request, but so, too, is the outbreak.
The current outbreak is the longest and most deadly in history, infecting more than 3,500 so far according to numbers from health officials. Three of the countries affected are among the world?s poorest, with health-care systems that are on the verge of collapse.
"It's time to treat this Ebola outbreak in the way we would treat a natural disaster, because it is a natural disaster," said Dr. Keith Martin, a former Liberal MP who now heads the Washington-based Consortium of Universities for Global Health...
