US CDC says Ebola threatening stability of affected countries


  • World
  • Wednesday, 03 Sep 2014

Health workers wearing protective clothing prepare themselves before to carrying an abandoned dead body presenting with Ebola symptoms at Duwala market in Monrovia August 17, 2014. REUTERS/2Tango

CHICAGO (Reuters) - The Ebola outbreak is threatening the stability of affected and neighbouring countries in West Africa and swift action is needed to scale up the "massive" response that will be required to tamp it down, the head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Tuesday.

Dr Thomas Frieden, director of the U.S. health agency who had just returned from a tour of West Africa, said he expected the number of Ebola cases to accelerate in the next two weeks and urged governments to act now to respond.

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