Abstract:
Deadly epidemic in a poor country undermined by war.
There has been no good news in this epidemic. It started in March with the report of forty-nine cases in Guinea, spreading to Sierra Leone then Liberia. The Liberian outbreak seemed to come to a halt but reemerged in June in the capital, Monrovia. Within two to three weeks it had overwhelmed local capacity to respond. It took Liberia until early August to move formally to a whole-of- government response. On 8 August, WHO declared the West African ebola outbreak ‘a public health emergency of international concern’, the first ever such declaration by WHO. Despite this, at the time of writing in late September, the epidemic continues to outstrip the international response.
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