It’s a statement you really want to believe.
This Thursday, August 13, the Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Margaret Chan reported that the outbreak ofEbola which has been raging for months in West Africa could disappear by the end of 2015.
This statement was made on the occasion of a meeting of the United Nations (UN) Security Council devoted to efforts to combat Ebola hemorrhagic fever.
While noting that there could still be setbacks, Margaret Chan said it is likely that the three countries most affected by Ebola (Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia) start 2016 free of new people affected. Defeating Ebola “means getting to zero [nouveaux cas] and stay at zero,” she told the UN Security Council.
Started in December 2013, the epidemic of haemorrhagic fever due to the Ebola virus in West Africa has led to the death of 11,296 people according to the latest reports, for nearly 28,000 declared cases. Health personnel mobilized to deal with the epidemic have been severely affected by the disease.
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