“Health systems will need to be rebuilt, disease surveillance systems established, trust in health services and authorities rebuilt, orphans educated and protected, and economic losses restored,” he writes.
After all, he notes, there will be more obstacles.
“More Ebola outbreaks will follow, because the populations at risk in Africa are growing, as is their mobility. There is an urgent need to clarify the ecology and reservoir of the Ebola virus, as well as the human behaviors that trigger epidemics,” he says. MORE
As WND reported, the World Health Organization warned Monday that Ebola is “expanding exponentially” in West Africa, with the problem so severe in Liberia that many thousands of new cases expected in country over the coming three weeks.
Last Friday, WHO reported in Geneva that one in 10 health-care workers treating Ebola patients in West Africa has become infected with the disease. MORE
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