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Ebola is winning the race: UN
The Ebola outbreak is \"winning the race\" against attempts to contain it, chief of the UN mission working to stop the deadly virus has warned as he asked the international community to help expand on-the- ground efforts across the affected nations in West Africa.
We either stop Ebola now or face an entirely unprecedented situation for which we do not have a plan, says UN
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United Nations: The Ebola outbreak is "winning the race" against attempts to contain it, chief of the UN mission working to stop the deadly virus has warned as he asked the international community to help expand on-the- ground efforts across the affected nations in West Africa.
In his briefing, head of the UN Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER) Anthony Banbury told the 15-nation UN Security Council that he is "deeply worried" that the steps implemented by the international community are "not nearly enough" to halt the advance of the fatal disease.
"Ebola got a head start on us," he said. "It is far ahead of us, it is running faster than us, and it is winning the race. If Ebola wins, we the peoples of the United Nations lose so very much," he said.
"We either stop Ebola now or we face an entirely unprecedented situation for which we do not have a plan," Banbury told the Council yesterday via video link from the operation’s headquarters in Ghana.
Banbury recalled the World Health Organisation's (WHO) recommendation that, within 60 days of October 1, 70 per cent of all those infected must be in the hospital and 70 per cent of the victims safely buried, if the outbreak were to be successfully arrested. Otherwise, he warned, the Ebola numbers risked rising "dramatically" and overwhelming the overall response if the December 1 deadline is not met.
"This is what we are fighting for now: we are fighting to prevent unavoidable deaths. We are fighting for people who are alive and healthy today, but will become infected and die if we do not put in place the necessary emergency response."
Meanwhile, US health officials are seeking 132 people who flew on a plane with a Texas nurse on the day before she came down with symptoms of Ebola. The nurse, the second person to catch Ebola in the US, fell ill on Tuesday.
Both she and nurse Nina Pham, 26, had treated Liberian Thomas Eric Duncan, who died on 8 October, in Dallas. It said it was taking the measure "because of the proximity in time between the evening flight and first report of illness the following morning".
The nurse, who has yet to be identified, was not showing symptoms of the disease when she flew, the crew has told CDC investigators. Health experts say people who are not showing symptoms are not contagious.
