See:
Total: 2,527 clinical cases as at 11 September
Confirmed: 790 |
Probable: 1145 |
Suspected: 592
Deaths: 1349 (584 confirmed)
Source: Ministry of Health Situation Report #119
Published 15 September 2014
Given that Liberian Government Ministers are being fired for not returning home, I think we can safely say things are going to hell so fast that the government — such as it is — of Liberia has lost the ability to do much Ebola counting.
The announcement of US Military involvement there was the give away on that score. The WHO needs American military boots on the ground to have any hope of tracking the rate of Ebola infection spread.
See this —
Want to Fight Ebola? CDC to Train Health Workers
By Brenda Goodman, MA
WebMD Health News Reviewed by Arefa Cassoobhoy, MD, MPH
http://www.webmd.com/news/20140915/ebola-cdc-training?src=RSS_PUBLIC
“Sept. 15, 2014 — The CDC is looking for a few good nurses and doctors — but especially nurses — to help fight the Ebola epidemic.”
and
“Training Course Details
The course offered by the CDC is modeled on the training provided by Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), or Doctors Without Borders. Among other things, instructors will teach participants to safely put on and take off the full-body personal protective equipment that doctors must wear around highly infectious patients. It will also teach the buddy system that MSF uses to help keep its doctors safe. Partners are taught to watch each other as they don the gear to make sure no steps are missed.
“This is an unprecedented event that’s occurring,” says John Brooks, MD. He’s an infectious disease specialist with the CDC who is in charge of the program. “The call for people who can provide medical care to the hundreds of patients who have Ebola virus disease, it’s a big call. The first step in getting people to go care for these people is to provide them with the proper training to make sure they themselves don’t get infected and can provide that care safely.”
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