Expert: We can control Ebola spread The British expert in charge of the United Nations response to Ebola has said he hopes the spread of the killer virus will be “under control” in three months. Dr David Nabarro, the UN’s special envoy on Ebola, said the number of cases in west African countries including Sierra Leone were increasing week-on-week. But systems now put in place, along with international help from nations including Britain, could help turn the tide and reduce the number of cases from one week to the next, he told the BBC 5live Up All Night’s Dotun Adebayo. Dr Nabarro said: “As a result of the sensitisation programme last month I think we have got a much better community involvement, which leads me to believe that getting it under control within the next three months is a reasonable target. “When we have a disease outbreak like this there is a thing called the epidemic curve, which is numbers of cases over time, and at the moment that epidemic curve is increasing in an exponential fashion … this means an upward-going curve and it’s quite frightening because it means an acceleration. “By under control I mean we bend the curve down, the numbers of cases [...] sheffieldinnews/expert-we-can-control-ebola-spread/
Posted on: Sun, 12 Oct 2014 06:31:05 +0000
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