"Ebola outbreak: 'It's even worse than I'd feare'"

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Ebola outbreak: 'It's even worse than I'd feared'

by Jacque Wilson, CNN

http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/27/health/ebola-outbreak/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

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(CNN) -- "It's even worse than I'd feared," Dr. Tom Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said Wednesday of the Ebola outbreak rampaging through West Africa. "Every day this outbreak goes on, it increases the risk for another export to another country.

"The sooner the world comes together to help Liberia and West Africans, the safer we will all be."

Frieden spoke to CNN's Nima Elbagir in Monrovia, Liberia, where fear and anger over the largest Ebola outbreak on record has grown as health officials put up quarantines around some of the capital city's poorest areas.

More than 2,600 people have been infected by Ebola in Liberia, Guinea, Sierra Leone and Nigeria since the outbreak began in December, according to the World Health Organization. Nearly 1,500 have died.

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1. In 2012, malaria killed an estimated 482 000 children under five years of age.

Malaria is an entirely preventable and treatable mosquito-borne illness. In 2013, 97 countries had ongoing malaria transmission.

An estimated 3.4 billion people are at risk of malaria, of whom 1.2 billion are at high risk. In high-risk areas, more than one malaria case occurs per 1000 population.

There were an estimated 207 million cases of malaria in 2012 (uncertainty range: 135 – 287 million) and an estimated 627 000 deaths (uncertainty range: 473 000 – 789 000). 90% of all malaria deaths occur in sub-Saharan Africa.

In 2012, malaria killed an estimated 482 000 children under five years of age. That is 1300 children every day, or one child almost every minute.

http://www.who.int/malaria/media/world_malaria_report_2013/en/

Just a little perspective.

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2. The world community has already ramped up to work on Malaria.

We need to step up on Ebola. And raise money to help those people in those country fight it. Otherwise it will just get bigger. If you could have started to destroy Malaria at its inception would you?

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