Capster78
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'CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — An Ebola outbreak that has killed more than 700 people in West Africa is moving faster than the efforts to control the disease, the head of the World Health Organization warned as presidents from the affected countries met Friday in Guinea's capital.
Doctors Without Borders said its teams were overwhelmed with new Ebola patients in Sierra Leone and that the situation in Liberia was now "dire."
Dr. Margaret Chan, director-general of the World Health Organization, said the meeting in Conakry "must be a turning point" in the battle against Ebola, which is now sickening people in three African capitals for the first time in history.
"If the situation continues to deteriorate, the consequences can be catastrophic in terms of lost lives but also severe socio-economic disruption and a high risk of spread to other countries," she said.'
WHO: Ebola moving faster than control efforts
This is not good...I wonder what kind of panic this will create if it starts spreading to other countries?
Certainly a situation that needs to be dealt with, but not something of great concern. A disease that kills 700 people should be no more than a footnote if you want to talk about diseases that kill people. This is simply an attempt by drug companies to scare people so they can increase their funding. 700 people dieing is not a global epidemic. Hell, it may not even be a local epidemic depending on the locality. Again, drug companies are trying to fear us into funding them. They did this with bird flue and other "flue's" claiming them as the next epidemic as well...