By Nana Boakye-Yiadom
July 2, 2014 4:27 PM
Accra (AFP) - The United Nations reassured west Africa on Wednesday that
the world's deadliest-ever Ebola epidemic could be stopped in its
tracks, telling the region's health ministers: "We can handle this."
...
"These kinds of outbreaks, these
diseases, can be stopped," Keiji Fukuda, assistant director-general for
health security at the WHO, told AFP, as 11 west African health
ministers gathered for a two-day conference in Accra on combatting the
killer pathogen.
"This is not a unique situation -- we have faced it many times -- so I'm quite confident that we can handle this.
"This is, however, the most complicated Ebola outbreak ever because it is spreading so fast in both urban and rural areas."...
.. Despite the efforts of the UN agency and other health workers, there has
been a "significant increase" in the rate of new cases and deaths in
recent weeks, the organisation added... http://news.yahoo.com/w-african-nations-crisis-talks-ebola-spreads-040642690.html
