The United Nations special envoy on Ebola has revealed that the number of cases is probably doubling every 3 to 4 weeks and the response needs to be 20 times higher than it was at the beginning of October.
This information was divulged to the United Nations General Assembly on Friday, October 10, 2014 through the UN System Coordinator on Ebola, Dr. David Nabarro.
He warned that without the mass mobilization of the world to support the affected countries in West Africa, “it will be impossible to get this disease quickly under control, and the world will have to live with the Ebola virus forever”.
According to News 24, Nabarro said the UN knows what needs to be done to catch up to and overtake Ebola’s rapid advance “and together we’re going to do it”.
“And our commitment to all of you is to achieve it within a matter of months – a few months,” he said.
The recent outbreak of the Ebola Virus Disease in West Africa has been said to be the worst so far in history since the introduction of the disease in 1976 as over 4 000 deaths have been recorded.
