Africa’s top health official warns the record-breaking Ebola outbreak could spread globally, including to the UK, unless urgent funding is secured to contain the crisis.
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Jean Kaseya, of the Africa CDC, warns of the illness spreading like Covid unless more funding is securedThe “unprecedented” spread of the Ebola outbreak means it could reach the UK and other countries, according to one of Africa’s top health officials.As the current outbreak reached 10,000 cases, with almost 5,000 deaths, Dr Jean Kaseya, director general of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), compared the outbreak to the Covid pandemic, which first took hold in China before spreading to countries across the world, claiming millions of lives, and ravaging health systems and economies. Continue reading...
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