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Thread #154975   Message #3665911
Posted By: Keith A of Hertford
04-Oct-14 - 01:51 AM
Thread Name: BS: Anybody else watching Ebola break out?
Subject: RE: BS: Anybody else watching Ebola break out?
More than a hundred a day just in Sierra Leone
BBC.
A leading charity has warned that a rate of five new Ebola cases an hour in Sierra Leone means healthcare demands are far outstripping supply.

Save the Children said there were 765 new cases of Ebola reported in the West African state last week, while there are only 327 beds in the country.

Experts and politicians are set to meet in London to debate a global response to the crisis.

It is the world's worst outbreak of the virus, killing 3,338 people so far.

There have been 7,178 confirmed cases, with Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea suffering the most.

Save the Children says Ebola is spreading across Sierra Leone at a "terrifying rate", with the number of new cases being recorded doubling every few weeks.

It said that even as health authorities got on top of the outbreak in one area, it spread to another.

The scale of the disease is also "massively unreported" according to the charity, because "untold numbers of children are dying anonymously at home or in the streets".
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-29453755