London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine finds that whether Britain had set up beds one month earlier,approximately 7500 people would not have become illThe number of Ebola cases in Sierra Leone could have been halved whether treatment beds had been set up by the UK government and charities just one month earlier, a report claims.
The slow response of the World Health Organisation and others to the increasingly desperate pleas for help from people on the ground, and particularly Médecins sans Frontières,has attracted widespread criticism. Now researchers from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine have revealed how many could have been spared the disease whether action had been taken sooner.
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Source: theguardian.com