Ebola Cases expected to Increase Rapidly

Between 550,000 and 1.4 million people in West Africa could contract Ebola by January 20, 2015, according to the U.S centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The top range of the estimate (1.4 million cases) is reliant on the fact that there are more than twice the number of cases that the World Health Organization estimates. The World Health Organization estimates there to be 5,864 cases of Ebola, while the CDC estimates there to be 20,000 cases. The CDC emphasizes that the epidemiological projections that from the World Health Association are based on the data from August. The CDC states that the World Health Association's projections do not account for the U.S Government relief effort.

To be honest this was a big surprise to me. I did not expect a deadly disease such as Ebola to have spread that much in that short amount of time with all of the doctors we are sending over there. In fact the thought of the disease spreading to the rest of the world. I hope that the CDC and the World Health Organization in charge of the Ebola research find a cure and fast as this spreading disease could cause serious havoc.


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