The United
Nations special envoy on Ebola has said the outbreak of the disease in West
Africa appears to be slowing down. However, he added that the battle against
Ebola was not over.
Deutsche Welle, 16 Jan 2015
UN special
envoy David Nabarro said on Thursday that the latest figures released by the World Health Organization showed that the three countries hardest hit by the
Ebola outbreak - Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone - had registered the lowest
numbers of fresh cases in months.
Liberia
reported its lowest number of new cases since June, while Guinea and Sierra
Leone both recorded their fewest new cases since August.
"The
change in behavior that we've been hoping for, working for, anticipating, is
now happening everywhere," Nabarro said in an interview with the Reuters
news agency.
"The
facilities to treat people are available everywhere," he added. "Safe
burial teams are providing safe and dignified burial services everywhere and
the result is that we're seeing the beginnings of the outbreak slowing
down."
The
hemorrhagic fever is spread through contact with bodily fluids of infected
people or the highly contagious body of someone who has died of the virus.
Nabarro said traditional burial practices that involved people touching and
cleaning bodies of Ebola victims had contributed to the rapid spread of the
disease.
'More
efforts needed'
Speaking to
AFP, he sounded even more upbeat, saying the outbreak may have passed the
"tipping point."
However, he
cautioned in both interviews that more efforts were still needed to end the
outbreak and he declined to speculate on how long this might take.
According
to the WHO, this outbreak has infected more than 21,000 people and killed 8,400
people, making it the worst on record.
pfd/rc (AFP, Reuters, AP)
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