Wednesday, August 20, 2014

Relief Official Urges Groups to Step Up Ebola Efforts - NYTimes.com

Relief Official Urges Groups to Step Up Ebola Efforts - NYTimes.com: The Ebola outbreak in West Africa is “a complete disaster,” and health agencies do not yet grasp its scope, the president of the relief group Doctors Without Borders said Tuesday.

“No one yet has the full measure of the magnitude of this crisis,” the president, Dr. Joanne Liu, said in an interview. “We don’t have good data collection. We don’t have enough surveillance.”

With two treatment centers in each of the three hardest-hit countries — Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone — her organization is treating more patients than any other entity.

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