EBOLA CRISIS What is going on in West Africa? According to the World Health Organisation (WHO) records there were 318 cases in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 1976, only 1 in1977, 315 in1995 and 57 in 2012, plus 32 in Uganda in 2012. The World Health Organization reported on Oct. 14 that the number of new Ebola cases could reach 10,000 per week by December. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has previously estimated that the total number of cases could reach 1.4 million in four months in a worst-case scenario WHO increased its Ebola death toll tally to 4,447 people on Tuesday, nearly all of them in West Africa, from 8,914 cases. The UNITED NATIONS reported, Schools have shut down, elections have been postponed, mining and logging companies have withdrawn, farmers have abandoned their fields. The Ebola virus ravaging West Africa has renewed the risk of political instability in a region barely recovering from civil war. How have a relatively small number of infections that most African nations have controlled, suddenly become a major epidemic? There are many theories around the internet, from a Hoax that exaggerates the numbers, to a deliberate infection through injections, leading to a worldwide desire to be inoculated against it. Are the rumours and fear spreading faster than the disease,? Is there 1000 new cases per week, will there be 10,000 per week? Why has the number of cases risen from a few hundred per year to a 1,000 per week? There is something underlying these issues that as yet is not clear. The question remains why the sudden spread, or supposed spread? I wonder why this causes panic, but the spread of HIV at 44,000 per week gets no mention?
Posted on: Sat, 18 Oct 2014 08:57:55 +0000