2014 Goals for Ebola Treatment May Not Be Met, U.N. Health Officials Say

NEW YORK TIMES  By Sheri Fink and  Somini Sengupta                                                       Dec. 2, 1014

GENEVA — The World Health Organization expressed doubt on Monday about achieving important United Nations benchmarks in battling Ebola, saying the year-end goals of isolating and treating all patients and safely burying all the dead would be major challenges.

Patients with Ebola watched the film Frozen in October in Suakoko, Liberia. People with confirmed diagnoses were separated from suspected cases at the treatment center. Credit Daniel Berehulak for The New York Times

However, the W.H.O. said, significant progress has been made in reversing the upward trajectory of Ebola cases in many places across the three West African countries ravaged by the disease.

Among the biggest challenges now, the agency’s top official for the Ebola response said, is to track down every person potentially exposed. To do this, the organization plans to nearly double the number of its experts on the ground to assist 20,000 community health workers.

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