The Ebola virus outbreak has already killed at least 2,300 people from 4784 cases since it started in December last year. The disease, which is transmissible through direct contact on the bodily fluids of the infected person, continues to wage fear and desperation in affected nations. Doctors and experts have been combating the disease for 10 months now and still, they haven't found a way to find the cure.
What's scarier about this is that health experts are still miles away from stopping the Ebola virus outbreak. According to a statement released by World Health Organization director general Margaret Chan, the above figure could be too small from what's happening and that the virus is growing out of control.
“In the three hardest hit countries, Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, the number of new patients is moving far faster than the capacity to manage them. We need to surge at least three to four times to catch up with the outbreaks,” the WHO official said.
To slow down the disease, Chan called for international support to meet the demand for more doctors, nurses, and medical supplies in affected countries.
American scientists also have the same opinion as Chan. Bryan Lewis, an epidemiologist at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech, said that the disease could last a little longer than anticipated but they are still hoping that they are wrong.
“Ebola has a simple trajectory because it’s growing exponentially,” added Dr. Jeffrey L. Shaman, an associate professor of environmental health sciences at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.
West Africa needs every resources there is right now to curb the Ebola virus outbreak. Sadly, nothing good is coming its way. On September 4, WHO revealed that they are short in equipment and all as they underwent 'severe budget cuts.' This came at a time when an ebola cluster occurred in Nigeria when an infected doctor socialized with other people not knowing that he already contracted the disease.
