Latest News On Ebola - The United Nations Mission For Ebola Emergency Response admitted that the deadline, which the mission has set, to contain the virus will not be fully met due to the increasing infections in Sierra Leone and elsewhere. The team has established a goal for Dec. 1 deadline which they set in September.
Based on the latest news on Ebola, the Dec. 1 deadline set by the UN response mission won't be met as new cases of infections have emerged despite the progress in Liberia. According to Al Jazeera, the head of the UN mission Anthony Banbury said the team is seeking to have 70 percent of Ebola patients under treatment and 70 percent of Ebola victims who died safely buried.
"We are going to exceed the December 1 targets in some areas. But we are almost certainly going to fall short in others," Banbury said. "In both those cases, we will adjust to what the circumstances are on the ground," he said in an interview.
In another latest Ebola news, an Italian doctor working for a non-governmental organization has tested positive for Ebola in Sierra Leone. The Wall Street Journal reported the doctor was flown to Rome for treatment late Monday.
According to the Italian Health Ministry, the doctor is the first confirmed Ebola case in Italy. Based on the latest Ebola news reported by The Telegraph, the ministry added that the doctor is doing well and will be treated at the Lazzaro Spallanzani National Institute for Infective Diseases in Rome.
Meanwhile, there are no clinically proven vaccines or treatments for Ebola that has killed over 5,400 people. However, the medical charity Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières) will host the studies in three of its Ebola treatment centers in West Africa next month. BBC News reported one of the trials will involve using blood donated by Ebola survivors to treat infected patients.
On separate news, burial workers in Kenema, a Sierra Leonean city, have dumped bodies of Ebola victims in public as a protest for unpaid allowances for extra risks they faced when handling cadavers of infected victims. According to another BBC News report, the workers went on strike over the matter and left 15 bodies abandoned at the city's main hospital.
The bodies were reportedly left at the hospital entrance. An official said the on-strike workers treated the corpses inhumanely.
Sierra Leone is one of the West African nations that was hardly-struck by this year's Ebola outbreak with over 1,200 deaths reported. And Kenema is the third biggest city in the country and the largest in the east, where the deadly Ebola outbreak first started.
As per the latest news on Ebola, there are already 15,351 reported cases in the current West African Ebola outbreak with 5,459 deaths have been recorded by the end of Nov. 18, as stated on the WHO report on Friday.
Despite the progress in Liberia and the fact that the spread of the virus has somewhat slowed in recent weeks, the situation in Sierra Leone remains serious, which over a hundred cases are reported per day. And as per the latest news on Ebola, the WHO has declared the outbreak as a global health emergency.
