Epidemic likely to last a year – Expert
Peter Piot, who was a member of the team that discovered the virus in
1976, stated after returning from Sierra Leone that there is still much
to be done to contain the disease.
The current Ebola outbreak is likely to last till the end of 2015, an expert researcher has said.
Peter Piot,
who was a member of the team that discovered the virus in 1976, stated
after returning from Sierra Leone that there is still much to be done to
contain the disease.
Piot however told the BBC
that he was encouraged by the progress being made and the promise of new
anti-viral therapies but also warned that vaccines would take time to
develop.
"The Ebola epidemic is still very much there. People are still dying, new cases are being detected," Piot said
"We need to be ready for a long effort, a sustained effort [for] probably the rest of 2015,” he added.
The current outbreak, which is the worst ever recorded, has so far claimed 7518 lives.
Source: by Jola Sotubo, pulse.ng, re-posted by Abdulgafar esho (www.econsforumnews.blogspot.com)
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