In the West, despite having some of the best equipped hospitals in the world, two nurses treating Thomas Eric Duncan, the first patient found in the US with the disease, were also infected. According to figures from the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), 1 in 50 Liberian health workers have been infected with Ebola. Indeed, all the nurses and careworkers have been at great risk of contracting Ebola. There has been some good news – Nigeria, which had 20 known cases, was recently declared free of Ebola, a result largely attributed to the quick isolation action of the nurse who treated the first case but who then contracted and died of the disease herself.
Ebola has now killed more than 4,500 people this year with the majority of deaths in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea.
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