Aid needed to stem explosion of Ebola in Liberia: study

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Aid needed to stem explosion of Ebola in Liberia: study

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/aid-needed-stem-explosion-ebola-liberia-study-234921546.html"><img src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/RcEhbbu6gmy1rVWPQcqqEA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/Part-PAR-Par8006377-1-1-0.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="Liberian health workers don full protection outfits at a Medecins Sans Frontieres Ebola treatment center in Monrovia, on October 18, 2014" align="left" title="Liberian health workers don full protection outfits at a Medecins Sans Frontieres Ebola treatment center in Monrovia, on October 18, 2014" border="0" /></a>Without a massive scaleup of aid, the Ebola epidemic in Liberia will explode, according to a computer simulation published Friday of the nation's most populous county. The study -- using assumptions challenged by some experts -- projected that by December 15, Montserrado county could have up to 171,000 cases of Ebola. If, during November, another 4,800 beds are installed at treatment centres and health workers speed up fivefold the detection rate of Ebola cases, 77,312 Ebola cases could be averted by December 15, the study said. &quot;Our predictions highlight the rapidly closing window of opportunity for controlling the outbreak and averting a catastrophic toll of new Ebola cases and deaths in the coming months,&quot; said Alison Galvani, a professor of epidemiology at Yale University's School of Public Health.</p><br clear="all"/>

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