The Ebola epidemic in Liberia decreased, but it was still early to celebrate

The World Health Organization (WHO) on October 29 said the rate of new Ebola infections in Liberia is declining but claims it is too early to celebrate.

'This downward trend is real and may be slowing down here,' - AFP quoted WHO Assistant General Manager Bruce Aylward in Geneva. Liberia is one of the three most affected African countries in the Ebola outbreak.

However, Mr. Aylward warned of misunderstanding the above signal that Ebola was under control.'It's like thinking you've controlled your baby tiger' - he compares and says the Ebola epidemic may be temporarily slowing down before moving to a new boom.

Red Cross staff digs sand to fill the bodies of Ebola-infected patients - (Photo: AFP)

The WHO warning issued after the US and the Red Cross said there is a good signal from the fight against Ebola in Africa. According to the Red Cross, the number of bodies the staff of the agency collected reduced by about a third from the peak of 300 bodies / week last month. Meanwhile US President Barack Obama said the epidemic 'would be defeated' under the support of science.

On the same day, WHO updated the number of Ebola deaths that exceeded 5,000, of which Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone were the most severely affected countries.

The total number of new infections jumped from 10,000 at the end of last week to over 13,700 in less than a week. WHO says the jump is due to updating cases that have not been previously recorded.

In Mali, there have been no new cases of Ebola after the country's first patient was a two-year-old girl.

Meanwhile, despite the controversial isolation of African health workers involved in Ebola outbreaks, the US government recently continued to apply a three-week isolation measure to soldiers returning from the west. Africa.

The United States has about 1100 soldiers in Liberia and Senegal, and is preparing to increase its number four times in the near future.