© Reuters/Edward EchwaluDoctors working in the laboratory of the collected samples of the outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus is virusThe scything through the West Africa rises sharply in last week's 467 people dead Ebola to the World Health Organization said in its latest report, the uncontrolled epidemic.
In addition, the countries of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, confirmed the deaths, the WHO announced that the number of suspected cases has risen from a virus or in 759. The Ebola virus disease (USED), formerly known as Ebola haemorrhagic fever (EHF) is up to 90% mortality rate.
"As of 30 June 2014, the cumulative number of associate USED three countries stands at 759, including 467 deaths," who said the latest alert notification.
The new update is displayed in the 38 percent increase in deaths and 27% of the number of cases of suspects WHO update last Tuesday, so it is the deadliest in the Western African Ebola epidemic on record. Last week, the death toll from Ebola was 399 June 635 cases.
In Guinea, and a little over 10 million inhabitants, suffers from the worst to suffer an outbreak of 413 cases and 303 deaths. Neighbouring countries, Liberia witnessed the deaths of 65 of 107 cases, when the Special Court for Sierra Leone, which treats patients from 239 99 is dead.
Last Friday, the WHO issued a warning to the States bordering the three West African States-man, Ivory Coast, Senegal and Guinea Bissau-warn Governments that the virus could pass through a country infected people.
In its opinion, said three major factors that have contributed to the patterns of transmission.
"These factors Include the delivery of USED for rural communities to facilitate strong cultural practices and traditional beliefs; transmission of the densely populated urban regions of Guinea Conakry USED and Monrovia, Liberia; and cross-border transmission USED along the Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, where the commercial and social activities in the border areas of these countries still in border areas.
On Wednesday, the health ministers of the eleven countries will gather in Accra, Ghana, to design a regional response to the outbreak.
Ahead of the meeting, the WHO stressed that the "containment of this outbreak requires a strong response on the part of the Member States, and in particular along the shared border areas."
The first Ebola virus outbreak registered in February in Guinea occurred in 2014. By 23 April, suspected that the confirmed cases of haemorrhagic fever (EHF) in the total number of Ebola outbreak had risen to 242, contains 142 dead mortality associated with 58.7%. The Virus is believed to have spread to neighboring countries.
The Governments of Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia are trying to deal with the epidemic did carry out evaluations of the national action plans and the EHF emergency committees.
The economy, and the economic community of Western African States (ECOWAS) in March to pay $ 250,000 to deal with the outbreak. The European Commission (EC) adopted a € 500,000 in Guinea and neighbouring countries to help curb the spread of the virus.
In Sierra Leone, to activate the active monitoring protocol for making your all visitors to Guinea and Liberia's health inspection process upon arrival. Senegal and Mauritania at the end of March, closed their borders to spread of disease. In April, Saudi Arabia stopped issuing visas, the Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca for those in Guinea and Liberia.
Doctors without borders (MSF), is believed to be the only aid organization for the treatment of patients suffering from the Ebola virus last week warned the outbreak is out of control.
"The epidemic is out of control, said Dr Bart Janssens, MSF Director of operations."The appearance of new sites in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia, there is a risk that it will spread to the rest of it. "
"We have reached our limits," Janssens insists. "Although the three countries for personnel and equipment in place, we are no longer sent to the MSF teams outbreak kaa."
MSF has called on the WHO funds necessary for this scale of an epidemic.
"In particular, qualified nursing staff is available, how to deal with Ebola training must be organized and contact tracing and awareness among the population, the need for intensified action. Ebola is no longer limited to Guinea's public health issue: it affects the whole of West Africa, "said Janssen.
On Tuesday, the Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf gave a statement saying that Ebola has become a national public health emergency.
"It is illegal for public health law cause people to health risks for example, Ebola" Sirleaf said, Reuters reports. "Let go out, found or reported to be in the homes of suspected Ebola, warning or prosecuting the laws of prayer rooms in Liberia," he said.
According to the WHO release USED a burst of rise in remote villages in Central and Western Africa, near the tropical rain forests. In the years after the virus was detected first in 2014 have received less than 1, 000 people a year.
The Virus is transmitted to people through the wild animals and the human population from human to human transmission is deemed to be the natural hosts of the family Pteropodidae fruit bats of the Ebola virus spreads. No vaccine is available for people and animals "to several different vaccines are being tested, but there is no one available in the clinical use of."
"Ebola is introduced into the human population through close contact with the blood, secretions, organs or other bodily fluids of infected animals. In Africa, the infection is documented in the handling of infected chimpanzees, gorillas, monkeys, fruit bats, forest antelope and porcupines sick or dead or the rain forest, "the WHO said.
The Virus in the event of a sudden fever and chills, sore throat, severe headache, weakness, joint pain, muscle pain, and chest pain. Average time of infection and the onset of symptoms is 10 days, but may be as long as 25 days.
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