I am professor Hans Rosling,
and I follow day by day
the informations about the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.
The epidemic is getting worse, especially in Liberia.
This graph shows
the number of newly infected persons
per week in Liberia.
Here, it shows the number of persons infected;
here, of the weeks, from the end of July
until beginning of September.
And you can see,
that the number infected
kept increasing and increasing all the time.
The doctors and health staff
and the Government in Liberia
did their best, together with the international support
but the treatments have today.
Patients die in the streets,
or they die at home,
buried without protection.
So more and more are getting infected.
And the specialists have now done a prediction for the future;
each patient here infects on average 1,7 other persons.
And that means that just more and more and more will be infected.
So the epidemic, with present efforts,
will continue like this.
And this is the uncertainty range;
this means that it is possible
that it will go almost straight up like this.
But this epidemic can be stopped
if just enough hospitals, temporary hospitals,
with enough beds, are put in place,
so that all patients
with suspected or proven Ebola
can get the best treatment possible
and that they can be treated in a way
so they don't infect other,
and that those who tragically die
are buried without infecting others.
But it must be put in place now,
otherwise it will continue like this!
And then, so much more effort will be needed.
The sooner the help will come,
the less resources are needed.