The source of spreading Ebola virus in Liberia

The World Health Organization is concerned that taxis that run everywhere become hot spots for Ebola because they transport patients to hospitals and are not disinfected.

Ebola virus is continuing to spread violently in Liberia. The World Health Organization (WHO) predicts there will be thousands of cases in the country within the next three weeks."The spread of the Liberian Ebola virus is very serious, the number of new cases increases exponentially," WHO said.

WHO also noted that in Liberia taxis are everywhere that are becoming infected spots because they are not disinfected. This is the means that many families use to bring patients to medical centers. Liberia has 15 provinces, 14 provinces have confirmed that they are infected. As soon as a new Ebola treatment center was opened, it immediately flooded the patient and became overwhelmed.

The medical staff chased an Ebola patient who had just escaped from the quarantine area at Elwa Hospital in Monrovia, Liberiam cut from a video shot on September 1 - (Photo: Reuters)

The health system in this West African country is too weak. In the province of Montserrado County, home to the capital Monrovia and more than a million people, the WHO investigation team estimates that there should be an emergency of 1,000 beds for Ebola patients, but in fact only 240 beds. Many patients are sent home and become sources of infection for the community. Before the outbreak of the disease, nearly 100,000 Liberian people had a doctor. Since the epidemic began, about 152 health workers were infected and 79 people were killed.

According to last week's updated WHO data, in Liberia, the virus killed 1,089 people out of 1,871 cases. In Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, there were 2,097 deaths among 3,944 cases. In Nigeria there are 7 deaths out of 18 cases. Senegal is the fifth country to appear Ebola, no deaths yet. WHO believes that to prevent this pandemic, it takes a long time from 6 to 9 months. Estimates of Ebola can infect about 20,000 people.

While governments in countries and organizations around the world are actively sending money and aid, WHO said that aid partners need to improve their efforts to fight Ebola from 3 to 4 times. WHO said current Ebola control measures have failed to achieve adequate results.

Ebola is a form of dengue that spreads through blood, sweat or vomiting, making people who work directly with patients very susceptible to getting sick. A WHO doctor who works at the Ebola treatment center in Sierra Leone is positive for the disease and will be evacuated from Freetown. This is the second WHO employee infected with the virus, after an epidemiologist of infected Senegalans last month.

The United States yesterday said it would send a 25-bed field hospital to Liberia to help provide medical care to medical staff there. He previously announced he would send military and humanitarian experts to set up a treatment center for Ebola victims in Sierra Leone.

To prevent Ebola, some African countries have banned border travel and closure bans, despite warnings from international organizations that this may cause famine due to the inability to bring supplies. food here.

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