Liberia Struggling To Deal With Ebola Outbreak

Liberia Struggling To Deal With Ebola Outbreak

With fatalities are rising above the previous record of 1,200, Liberia and particularly its capital city Monrovia are struggling to contain the situation and put a stop to the extremely dangerous epidemic. Ebola, a hemorrhagic type of disease that has a startling survival rate of 10 percent of those infected is causing serious problems in West African countries, particularly in Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia. Numbers of infected people have also been growing in Nigeria, one of Africa’s largest countries and its largest economy.

The World Health Organization has been trying to raise awareness on the gravity of the situation while also increasing food and medical deliveries in quarantined areas as it announced that the death toll has grown to 1,299 just from a total number of diagnosed cases of 2,240.

In a period of two days Liberia registered 53 deaths, Sierra Leone 17 and Guinea 14. The only moderately optimistic announcement made by the WHO was that the Nigerian outbreak where 12 cases where confirmed along with 4 deaths can be contained if the proper measures are taken by its government. WHO also reported that the situation in Guinea is less grave then than that in Liberia or Sierra Leone.

The World Health Organization is also organizing food supplies for nearly 1 million quarantined people in order to reduce unnecessary movement. It is also helping the Liberian government prevent the disease from spreading to the overpopulated impoverished areas of its capital, Monrovia.

Posted by James Fried on Wednesday August 20 2014, 7:24 AM EST. Ref: reuters. Link. All trademarks acknowledged. Filed under Featured News, World. Comments and Trackbacks closed. Follow responses: RSS 2.0