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The New York Times recently reported that the government of Sierra Leone has acknowledged the death toll is worse than what was being reflected in reports. Under-reporting is a concern in all countries most affected by Ebola right now — Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea. They are reportedly dealing with 6,000 cases and 2,900 deaths at the moment but the WHO said these figures vastly underestimate the true scale of the epidemic. The numbers for Sierra Leone come from the Ministry of Health, and diplomats and international health officials say they are largely inaccurate, substantially underplaying the gravity of the situation on the ground. “Even a 2-year-old child can look at them and see they don’t add up,” the Western diplomat here said. The W.H.O. added a veiled caveat to the statistics in its latest report as in the preceding one, saying that they were “subject to change” because of “ongoing reclassification.” Indeed cemetery workers here in the capital report that Ebola deaths far exceed what the government has so far acknowledged.
Posted on: Sun, 28 Sep 2014 13:26:52 +0000

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