A mother and child in a classroom now used as an Ebola isolation ward in Monrovia, Liberia. Photo: Getty-Images
Geneva: The Ebola epidemic is moving faster than authorities can handle and could take six months to bring under control, medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres said on Friday.
The warning came after the World Health Organisation said the scale of the epidemic had been vastly underestimated and that “extraordinary measures” were needed to contain the killer disease.
The UN health agency said the death toll from the worst outbreak of Ebola in four decades had climbed to 1145 in the four afflicted West African countries – Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone.
“It is deteriorating faster, and moving faster, than we can respond to,” Joanne Liu, the chief of Doctors without Borders, known by its French acronym MSF, told reporters in Geneva.