Bernice Dahn, the deputy health minister of Liberia and the country’s chief medical officer, has voluntarily placed herself under quarantine after her assistant died of ebola, Isaac Jackson, deputy information minister of Liberia told Reuters. To date, 3000 people have died from ebola in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
Liberia has suffered the vast majority of casualties from the ebola with 1830 reported deaths from the disease since the onset of the outbreak. The United States Centers for Disease Control estimates that 1.5 million people could become infected by 2015 if more effective efforts on the ground to contain the outbreak are not established.
Complicating the ebola outbreak are the deaths of the trained personnel who are treating the disease. In an already strained medical system, the loss of educated medical personnel to the ebola outbreak helps to feed the cycle that spreads the disease, worsening the situation in a vicious cycle.
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