The Ebola virus, one of the deadliest viruses known to man, causes severe muscle pain, vomiting, diarrhea and — in many cases — unstoppable internal and external bleeding and death within days of infection. The current Ebola crisis began in southern Guinea last December and spread to Liberia (more than 3000 reported infections and more than 1600 deaths) and Sierra Leone (1800 infections and more than 600 deaths.)
A recent World Health Organization (WHO) Study of the West African Ebola crisis suggests that despite on-going efforts designed to mitigate the impact of the Ebola inflections thousands of new cases are reported weekly. The WHO Study predicts that unless medical and civil efforts can reduced the number of people infected the crisis will quickly reach pandemic dimensions of 20,000 infections by November.
The U. S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is making its own prediction that infections could reach a staggering 1 million by the end of the year with a mortality rate estimated to be 71 percent. CDC scientists further concluded that Liberia and Sierra Leone may have as many as 21,000 reported and unreported cases by the end of September. The CDC also predicts that the two countries could have an estimated 550,000 to 1.4 million cases by late January.
The WHO Study forecasted that the cumulative confirmed and probable cases by November 2 will be 5,925 in Guinea, 9,939 in Liberia and 5,063 in Sierra Leone. The combined total would surpass 20,000. Higher rates of infection would result in increased fatalities.
The United Nations is seeking to raise nearly $1.0 billion to defeat the worst-ever outbreak of Ebola, which the Security Council has declared a threat to world peace.
The WHO study showed that even in this epidemic, each Ebola patient on average infects only 1.7 people in Guinea, 1.8 in Liberia and 2.0 in Sierra Leone.
And there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers’ places. All these are the beginning of sorrows. Mathew 24:7-8
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