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Ebola crisis to take 6 months to control
Ebola crisis to take 6 months to control, The outbreak of Ebola in West Africa will take about six months to bring under control, the medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said on Friday.
Geneva: The outbreak of Ebola in West Africa will take about six months to bring under control, the medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said on Friday. Speaking in Geneva, MSF President Joanne Lui called for strengthened international co-ordination led by the World Health Organization (WHO). Lui said that controlling the outbreak in Liberia - which has recorded more than 300 deaths - was vital to containing the epidemic. "If we don't stabilise Liberia, we will never stabilise the region," she said.
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"In terms of timeline, we're not talking in terms of weeks, we're talking in terms of months. We need a commitment for months, at least I would say six months, and I'm being, I would say, very optimistic."
Lui also called for more action from the international community, led by WHO - the UN's health agency. Earlier, the World Health Organization has said that there is evidence the numbers of dead and sickened by Ebola in West Africa may vastly underestimate the magnitude of the outbreak.
The UN health agency said it was prepared for the crisis to continue for months. With more than 1,060 deaths and 1,975 sickened, the Ebola outbreak is already the deadliest ever.
