MSF: Whole villages in Sierra Leone have been wiped out by Ebola

[davidn3600]

Barcelona (AFP) - Ebola has wiped out whole villages in Sierra Leone and may have caused many more deaths than the nearly 5,000 official global toll, a senior coordinator of the medical aid group MSF said Friday.

Rony Zachariah of Doctors Without Borders, known by its French initials MSF, said after visiting Sierra Leone that the Ebola figures were "under-reported", in an interview with AFP on the sidelines of a medical conference in Barcelona.

"The situation is catastrophic. There are several villages and communities that have been basically wiped out. In one of the villages I went to, there were 40 inhabitants and 39 died," he said.

The World Health Organization (WHO) published revised figures on Friday showing 4,951 people have died of Ebola and there was a total of 13,567 reported cases.

"The WHO says there is a correction factor of 2.5, so maybe it is 2.5 times higher and maybe that is not far from the truth. It could be 10,000, 15,000 or 20,000," said Zachariah.

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[Marrah_G]

1. This is so very sad

[libodem]

2. What a sorry state of affairs

What a waste of humanity. I can't fathom the lack of a unified and sustained world wide response.

It may be a natural disaster but I can not help but expect some Shock Doctrine type of outcome from this devastation.I will be unsurprised when the fracking starts up under those villages. Or what ever mineral extraction or rubber plantation needs to be put there.

Wait for it.