Borders, Joanne Liu (pictured left), said today
August 15th that it will take six months to bring the
current Ebola epidemic sweeping through West
Africa under control. She said this after a 10-day trip
to some countries in West Africa where the outbreak
has so far occurred. Liu, who met with Ebola
patients & doctors, said the outbreak felt like
'wartime'
"The main thing I come back to is that it is
deteriorating faster, moving faster than we can
respond to. To put it in context with my time with
DWB, I really feel that it is like wartime, in terms of
fear and nobody knowing what is going on. We need
a response in terms of international organizations
and states, and it needs to happen now if we want to
contain this epidemic. Over the next six months we
should get the upper hand on the epidemic, this is my
gut feeling. We need people with a hands-on
operational mindset to combat the outbreak." she
said
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