‘Entire villages disappeared’: Ebola deaths in Sierra Leone ‘under-reported’
RT | November 1, 2014
Ebola’s toll on Sierra Leone is much greater than previously thought, with entire villages killed off by the virus. This means up to 20,000 people could have succumbed to the disease by now, a senior coordinator for Doctors Without Borders (MSF) believes.
According to Rony Zachariah, coordinator of operational research for MSF, the Ebola impact on Sierra Leone is in fact “under-reported,” AFP quotes.
“The situation is catastrophic. There are several villages and communities that have been basically wiped out. In one of the villages I went to, there were 40 inhabitants and 39 died,” Zachariah told the agency. “Whole communities have disappeared but many of them are not in the statistics. The situation on the ground is actually much worse.”
The latest figures from the World Health Organization (WHO) put the total number of dead at 4,951 out of 13,567 recorded cases.
But the real total could be up to 20,000 people dead, Zachariah argues. “The WHO says there is a correction factor of 2.5, so maybe it is 2.5 times higher and maybe that is not far from the truth. It could be 10,000, 15,000 or 20,000.”
Zachariah also highlighted the shortage of healthcare workers in the country.
“You have one nurse for 10,000 people and then you lose 10, 11, 12 nurses. How is the health system going to work?” he said.
Even at this point, the pace of dealing with Ebola is slow, he added. “We might get a vaccine and a treatment… but even now we need to go much faster because the clock is ticking…We want action now.”
Meanwhile, the latest cases of Ebola in Spain and the US have sparked fears of an even bigger outbreak, prompting Canada to step up its border security so as to limit the risk of infection spreading into the country.
The federal government announced on Friday it is suspending the processing of visa applications for residents and nationals who have been in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone in the last three months. The same goes for permanent residence applications. … Full article
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this IS TOTAL BS.
same as all the deaths in bosnia .iraq .palestine etc.people MOVED OUT from combat zones,morons interviewing members OF THE SAME FAMILY adding up double TRIPLE the amount of BS-
entire viLLage wiped out ?
LOL as we have NOT SEEN ONE regular person’s PHOTOS on any twitter feed etc-NOT ONE.
and by “regular” as in NON WHO CDC personnel-
BUT HAVE SEEN bad crisis actors awakening from the DEAD,guy rolling around supposed to be end stage ebola then getting up and getting his PAY on and on.
google crisis actors ebola ebola hoax whatever
and africans DEFINITELY HAVE their personal cell phones,there are internet cafes and some do have their own internet ISP.
we haven’t HEARD or SEEN A THING about any MASSIVE DEATH RATE.
now boys and girls WHY IS THAT ?
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There is a fog of ignorance and deception here. Maybe the death toll is higher or lower , we just don’t know. But we Do know that a dependable source of open information that can be cross checked is Not coming out and that is just too weird to be a circumstantial coincidence, it is someone’s intent to control the story.
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