And health officials from around the world are meeting today in Geneva, Switzerland, to decide whether to raise the level of response to the Ebola virus.
The disease has killed over 9-hundred people in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone over the past few months.
Speaking on Nationwide This Morning, Spokesperson for the World Health Organization’s Sub-Regional Ebola Outbreak Coordination Centre, Nyka Alexander, says despite the alarm, the WHO is not overly concerned about the spread of the disease to other parts of the world.
In previous outbreaks, Ebola has killed up to 90-percent of its victims within a matter of weeks.
However, the current outbreak has seen about a fifty-percent mortality rate.
Ms. Alexander says survival depends heavily on how early victims receive care and treatment.
There is no cure or vaccine for Ebola, although two Americans with the disease are said to be recovering after receiving a previously-untested anti-Ebola serum.
Ms. Alexander says the best way to combat the disease is information.
Spokesperson for the WHO’s Sub-Regional Ebola Outbreak Coordination Centre, Nyka Alexander.
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