Ebola spread exponential in Liberia, thousands of cases expected in Sept - WHO

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http://af.reuters.com/article/commoditiesNews/idAFL5N0R940E20140908

Ebola spread exponential in Liberia, thousands of cases expected in Sept - WHO
Mon Sep 8, 2014

GENEVA, Sept 8 (Reuters) - The Ebola virus is spreading exponentially in Liberia, where many thousands of new cases expected over the coming three weeks, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Monday.

In a statement, the WHO said that motorbike-taxis and regular taxis are "a hot source of potential virus transmission" in Liberia where conventional Ebola control interventions "are not having an adequate impact".

The United Nations agency said that aid partners need to scale-up current efforts against Ebola by three-to-four fold in Liberia and elsewhere in West Africa. In Liberia it had killed 1,089 people among 1,871 cases, according to the WHO's update of last Friday.

(Reporting by Stephanie Nebehay; editing by Tom Miles)

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Where's that guy who was posting here a month or two ago that this Ebola outbreak was nothing to be concerned about?

And to top that off, there's this:
http://www.breakingnews.com/item/2014/09/08/breaking-a-potential-case-of-ebola-is-being-tre/

If this is true, it looks like Ebola has made it into the USA "on its own".

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Where's that guy who was posting here a month or two ago that this Ebola outbreak was nothing to be concerned about?

And to top that off, there's this:
http://www.breakingnews.com/item/2014/09/08/breaking-a-potential-case-of-ebola-is-being-tre/

If this is true, it looks like Ebola has made it into the USA "on its own".

I know... he was adamant that transmission modes for ebola were so difficult that it would be impossible for it to spread here. If fact, there were unkind words for the mere suggestion that bringing the virus to the US was a bad idea.