Global health organization said that the number of victims of the outbreak, caused by a microbe Ebola in the West African States emphatically increased.
Today, nearly 2 million people are infected with a disease for which no vaccine.
The number of victims of the outbreak, caused by the Ebola epidemic in West Africa increased to 1013 people. It tells a specialized Agency of the UN in the field of health, Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone registered 69 of the latest cases of dangerous fever, 52 of them resulted in death.
In statistics includes not only laboratory-confirmed deaths from the fever, but also cases with suspected her. Last week, the who declared an epidemic of Ebola threat of large scale. 11 August in Geneva, the who conducted a conference call, which addressed the issue of possible use to combat disease drugs that can potentially help, but have never been tested on humans. The results of the meeting will be announced in the coming days.
Ebola is a rare but extremely dangerous disease. For the first time the disease was first identified in 1976 in the area of the present Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and called by the name which is next to the site of infection of the river.
In case of human infection the probability of death is final up to 90%. From this disease have not yet invented the vaccine. In 2000, the fever killed 224 people in Uganda. Outbreaks of Ebola have been noted in 2007, but the number of victims was then significantly less 37. Ebola is quite contagious and can be transmitted by airborne droplets upon contact with unhealthy people. According to statistics, die from 25% to 90% infected.
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