Ebola outbreak: Liberia president lifts state of emergency

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Ebola outbreak: Liberia president lifts state of emergency

(BBC) Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has lifted the state of emergency imposed to control an Ebola outbreak that has ravaged the country.

She said the move did not mean "the fight is over", although numbers of new infections were no longer increasing.

The confirmed death toll from the virus is now 5,160 people, almost all of them from Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone.

Meanwhile, clinical trials to find an effective treatment for Ebola are due to start in West Africa next month.

The medical charity Medicins Sans Frontieres (MSF), which has been helping lead the fight against the virus, says three of its treatment centres will host three separate research projects.

Full story: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-30044418


-- BBC 2014-11-14

[RustBucket]

From Yesterday

"Transmission remains intense in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone" and the frequency of new cases is still increasing in Sierra Leone, the WHO said in its situation report.

I think this is a very premature response to a WHO report that is contrived to play down figures to stem public panic.

Transmission rates are still high in Liberia. But transmissions rates are not 'exponentially' increasing (allegedly).

Stop your 'state of emergency' and allow full freedom of movement once again..... that will be good for the situation..... not.

Since the first reported case of this outbreak, the infection rates have gone up and down several times, and each time there is a lull in the rate of transmissions, it is soon followed by a much bigger spike.

Lot's of the world's leading virologists are expecting it to jump up once again.

[asdecas]

From Yesterday

"Transmission remains intense in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone" and the frequency of new cases is still increasing in Sierra Leone, the WHO said in its situation report.

I think this is a very premature response to a WHO report that is contrived to play down figures to stem public panic.

Transmission rates are still high in Liberia. But transmissions rates are not 'exponentially' increasing (allegedly).

Stop your 'state of emergency' and allow full freedom of movement once again..... that will be good for the situation..... not.

Since the first reported case of this outbreak, the infection rates have gone up and down several times, and each time there is a lull in the rate of transmissions, it is soon followed by a much bigger spike.

Lot's of the world's leading virologists are expecting it to jump up once again.

Perhaps you can cite some references for your assertions, in particular that "Lot's (sic) of the world's leading virologists are expecting it to jump up once again."

[Billy The Kid]

Good news for all of us , many thanks to 3.200 US and British army who arrived few weeks ago to build a camp away from the village . That is how to contain the virus to the minimum . It was a pity that over 5,000 had died . Lesson learned for the WHO , any new disease comes up in future , should pay a full attention to it .