Impossible to keep up with Ebola infections in west Africa

The International President of Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) Joanne Liu told a meeting of member states on Ebola Tuesday that it is impossible to keep up with the sheer number of Ebola infected people pouring into facilities in West Africa.
"Six months into the worst Ebola epidemic in history, the world is losing the battle to contain it," she said.
The MSF official stressed that Leaders are "failing to come to grip" with this transnational threat, as cases and deaths continue to surge.
Furthermore, she affirmed that riots are breaking out and isolation centers are overwhelmed, whereas the health workers on the front lines are becoming infected and are dying in shocking numbers.
The MSF has been ringing alarm bells for months, she said, and the outbreak began six months ago, yet it was declared as "Public Health Emergency of International Concern" on August 8.
She stressed that many of the member states have already invested heavily in biological threat response, and highlighted the political and humanitarian responsibility for immediate utilization to such capabilities in Ebola-affected countries.
She called upon the member states to dispatch disaster response teams, backed by logistical capabilities in order to get the epidemic under control.
"This is a transnational crisis, with social, economic and security implications for the African continent," she concluded.
On the same issue, the Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Margaret Chan confirmed that this is the largest, most severe and most complex Ebola outbreak ever seen in nearly 40 years in history of this disease.
She reported that as of this week, more than 3,500 cases reported in Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia and more than 1,500 deaths.