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[quote=Anonymous]I am not at all concerned about Ebola transmission here in the US, except for sporadic cases that should quickly be contained.   The fatality rate here for this infected has also been very low.

The situation in Sierra Leone on the other hand, is horrifying.   And worse than has been thought.

http://news.yahoo.com/leone-ebola-outbreak-catastrophic-aid-group-msf-223833151.html

[quote]Barcelona (AFP) - Ebola has wiped out whole villages in Sierra Leone and may have caused [b]many more deaths than the nearly 5,000 official global toll[/b], a senior coordinator of the medical aid group MSF said Friday.

Rony Zachariah of Doctors Without Borders, known by its French initials MSF, said after visiting Sierra Leone that the Ebola figures were "under-reported", in an interview with AFP on the sidelines of a medical conference in Barcelona.

"The situation is catastrophic. There are several villages and communities that have been basically wiped out. In one of the villages I went to, there were 40 inhabitants and 39 died," he said.
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He stressed that [b]"whole communities have disappeared but many of them are not in the statistics.[/b] The situation on the ground is actually much worse."

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No one knows how many people in these small communities have been killed.   They are not going to hospital care because there is no care, and they are not getting counted.
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