The number of cases of Ebola may exceed 20,000, it was learned on Thursday in Geneva, where the plan was released by the World Health Organization in Geneva (WHO) to combat the epidemic for the next six months.
“The number of cases of Ebola hemorrhagic fever virus may exceed 20,000,” according to the WHO, cited by AFP. The outbreak continues to progress “at an alarming rate.”
From the beginning of the outbreak, affecting West Africa, has sickened 3069 people have died and 1552, according to this update from Thursday WHO and which counts cases until August 26. “The outbreak continues to accelerate. More than 40% of the total number of cases occurred in the last 21 days. However, most cases are concentrated in only a few locations, “reads the statement. The previous update gathered numbers until August 20. In six days there were 454 new cases and 125 deaths.
The plan for the next six months, a kind of roadmap to combat the worst epidemic of Ebola ever, will undergo “reverse the trend of new cases and new areas with infected within three months of stopping transmission in the capital and major port cities and to stop any residual transmission within six to nine months, “AFP quotes.
According to WHO , $ 490 million (€ 371.47 million) will be needed in the next six months to put the plan into practice.
The Ebola hemorrhagic fever is caused by a virus whose natural hosts should be bats frutívoros who live in the forests of Africa. The outbreak in that first identified the virus occurred in 1976 in northern Democratic Republic of Congo, formerly Zaire, near the Ebola River. There are no drugs or vaccines confirmed the virus, which can get to have a mortality rate of 90%.
The current epidemic, whose mortality is around 50%, began in the southern Guinea in late December and spread to Liberia, Sierra Leone and then to Nigeria, where she died, respectively, 430, 694, 422 and six people.
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