Sierra Leone: Ebola in Sierra Leone - News From the Frontline

13 January 2015
opinion

I have been in Sierra Leone now for two weeks. During my last visit in April the first cases of Ebola had appeared. Deaths had already been reported and before that in the neighboring countries of Guinea and Liberia. Only MSF (Medicins Sans Frontieres) were warning of the seriousness of the outbreak but at the time no one was heeding the warnings, neither the local governments nor the international community.

Since then the Ebola virus has ravaged this part of West Africa. There have been nearly 21,000 reported cases and over 8,000 reported deaths. Disgracefully but sadly not surprisingly, it took a couple of incidents affecting the UK, US and Spain before the rest of the world woke up to the danger and help started to arrive in sufficient numbers financially and logistically.

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