World response to Ebola is slow-According to Ebola-Hit Locations

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Ebola-hit states specifically their leaders are saying that the World's response to the Ebola Virus is slow and that the epidemic is outpacing the world's response for a cure.

Because of this, the future of the whole African nation is on the break of disorder. According to Jim Yong Kim, President of World Bank "Ladies and gentleman, unless we quickly contain and stop the Ebola epidemic, nothing less than the future of not only West Africa - but perhaps even Africa is at stake."

According to Sierra Leone President Ernest Bai Koroma, the world is not responding faster enough as not only the people of Africa are dying but also nurses and doctor as well.

Ebola is a disease of humans and other primates caused by an ebolavirus. Symptoms start two days to three weeks after contracting the virus, with a fever, sore throat, muscle pain, and headaches. Typically, vomiting, diarrhea, and rash follow, along with decreased function of the liver and kidneys. Around this time, affected people may begin to bleed both within the body and externally.

Just recently, an Uganda-born doctor, John Taban Dada, died early on Thursday of Ebola at a treatment centre on the outskirts of Liberian capital, Monrovia.

Dada is the fourth doctor to die in the West African country since the virus has outbreak.

Based on the World Health Organisation (WHO) latest figures, 3,865 people have been killed of Ebola, mostly in West African countries of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.

Because of the Ebola scare, the Polls in Liberia has been cancelled. Liberia decided to suspend its nationwide Senate polls right after the election commission admitted it would not be able to stage the ballot safely, according to a government statement. The Government has not given a new date for the election.

But it is not only the African nations that are affected as the World is also made aware of the result of the virus.

In Australia, a Red Cross volunteer who just recently returned from Sierra Leone has been suspected of being infected by the Ebola Virus.

The volunteer has decided to confine herself in her apartment but health authorities persist that teher is no cause for an alarm.

According to Jeannette Young, Queensland chief health officer "She has a flatmate but she hasn't been unwell at all till this morning and she's had a low grade fever." But Young said that she does not have any bodily fluids symptomatic of the disease, such as vomit or diarrhea.

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