{"id":15844,"date":"2014-08-18T02:46:40","date_gmt":"2014-08-18T02:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/ebola-crisis-to-last-at-least-6-months-msf\/"},"modified":"2014-08-18T02:46:36","modified_gmt":"2014-08-18T02:46:36","slug":"ebola-crisis-to-last-at-least-6-months-msf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/ebola-crisis-to-last-at-least-6-months-msf\/","title":{"rendered":"Ebola Crisis to Last ‘at least 6 Months’ – MSF"},"content":{"rendered":"

{{The outbreak of Ebola in West Africa will take at least six months to bring under control, medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) says.
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Speaking in Geneva, MSF President Joanne Liu said the situation was “deteriorating faster, and moving faster, than we can respond to”.<\/p>\n

Earlier, the World Health Organization (WHO) said the scale of the outbreak appeared to be “vastly underestimated”.<\/p>\n

It said that “extraordinary measures” were needed.<\/p>\n

The epidemic began in Guinea in February and has since spread to Liberia, Sierra Leone and Nigeria.<\/p>\n

On Friday, the death toll rose to 1,145 after WHO said 76 new deaths had been reported in the two days to 13 August. There have been 2,127 cases reported.<\/p>\n

Ms Liu said that although Guinea was the initial epicentre, the pace there had slowed, and other countries – particularly Liberia – were now the focus.<\/p>\n

“If we don’t stabilise Liberia, we will never stabilise the region,” she said.<\/p>\n

“In terms of timeline, we’re not talking in terms of weeks, we’re talking in terms of months. We need a commitment for months, at least I would say six months, and I’m being, I would say, very optimistic.”<\/p>\n

Ms Liu also called for more action from the international community and stronger leadership from WHO – the UN’s health agency.<\/p>\n

“All governments must act. It must be done now if we want to contain this epidemic,” she said.<\/p>\n

Ebola is transmitted by direct contact with the body fluids of a person who is infected.<\/p>\n

Initial flu-like symptoms can lead to external haemorrhaging from areas such as eyes and gums, and internal bleeding which can lead to organ failure.<\/p>\n

The WHO – which declared a global health emergency last week – recently said the risk of transmission of Ebola during air travel remained low, as the disease is not airborne.<\/p>\n

As a consequence, Kenya Airways has rejected pressure to suspend its flights to the Ebola-hit states of West Africa.<\/p>\n

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