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CDC: Ebola Cases DOUBLING EVERY 20 DAYS
Image source: Bloomberg
There could be 1.4 million cases of Ebola by January in just two West African Nations, Liberia and Sierra Leone, according to new projections from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The CDC report based the estimate on new research that shows Ebola could be deadlier and spreading faster than previously thought.
“The findings in this report underscore the substantial public health challenges posed by the predicted number of future Ebola cases,” the CDC said. “If conditions continue without scale-up of interventions, cases will continue to double approximately every 20 days, and the number of cases in West Africa will rapidly reach extraordinary levels.”
If the CDC is correct, then there also would be more than 1 million deaths from Ebola by late January, as the fatality rate is 71 percent.
The figure of 1.4 million is the CDC’s worst-case scenario for the Ebola outbreak, and is far more than an estimate published in the journal Eurosurveillance earlier in September. That article predicted there would be 277,000 cases of Ebola in all of West Africa by the end of 2014.
Perhaps most frightening, the CDC’s figures are nearly triple what they were just four days earlier.
Source: http://www.offthegridnews.com/2014/09/25/cdc-ebola-cases-doubling-every-20-days/
