Pandemic should be treated 'the same way' as threat posed by nuclear weapons, security officials say

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/ebola-virus-pandemic-should-be-treated-the-same-way-as-threat-posed-by-nuclear-weapons-security-officials-say-9771219.html


Ms Greening said the stark prediction by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that Ebola cases could reach 1.4 million by January highlighted the need for rapid action.

The official number of people infected currently stands at 7,178 – of which 3,338 have died. But the US health institute suggested in a report last week that the true scale of the outbreak may have been hugely underestimated due to under-reporting.


......The number of people infected with Ebola is doubling every 20 to 30 days, and aid agencies said that the situation on the ground was dire.

David MacDonald, Oxfam’s regional director for West Africa, said: “Ebola is consuming whole communities. We are seeing them absolutely torn apart as a result of the disease. Many areas have been forced into quarantine – the streets are completely deserted. The need to break the spread of Ebola is absolutely key.

"Right now infection rates are accelerating and we have no option but to rapidly increase our work.”

information, all of it, must be made public. The first comments were regarding spread by direct contact.....person to person, coming in direct contact with bodily fluids of someone with Ebola.

Slowly and only by a few it is being broadcast..... Ebola can live outside of the body. .....all the information must be given.

Hush hush situations will not help contain the virus. Look how HIV sread from one person entering the country.