Africa’s top health official has warned that the current Ebola outbreak could spread globally like COVID-19 unless urgent funding is secured to bolster response efforts. With cases surpassing 10,000 and nearly 5,000 deaths, the director general of the Africa CDC drew parallels to the pandemic’s rapid international transmission, raising concerns that the virus may soon reach Europe and beyond. Experts emphasize the need for stronger preparedness and potential treatments to prevent a crisis on the scale of the earlier health emergency.
Jean Kaseya, of the Africa CDC, warns of the illness spreading like Covid unless more funding is secured to increase preparedness and possible treatmentThe “unprecedented” spread of the Ebola outbreak means it could reach the UK and other countries, according to one of Africa’s top health officials.As the current outbreak reached 10,000 cases, with almost 5,000 deaths, Dr Jean Kaseya, director general of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), compared the outbreak to the Covid pandemic, which first took hold in China before spreading to countries across the world, claiming millions of lives, and ravaging health systems and economies. Continue reading...
