The Ebola crisis in west Africa is outstripping the ability of aid
organisations to stem the epidemic, the head of international medical
charity MSF said on Friday, likening it to a war.
"It is
deteriorating faster, and moving faster, than we can respond to," Joanne
Liu told reporters a day after returning from a 10-day mission to the
hard-hit region.
"It is like war time. There is fear," she said.
"It's
moving, and advancing, but we have no clue how it's going. Like in a
war time, we have a total collapse of infrastructure," she added.
The
outbreak started at the beginning of this year in the forested border
zone between Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia, and has also spread to
Nigeria.
While Guinea had initially been the hotbed, the pace of
the outbreak there has slowed, with concerns now focused on the other
countries, notably Liberia.
"If we don't stabilise Liberia, we'll never stabilise the region," said Liu.
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