Poor Housing Transmit Ebola - Rosling's Factpod #7

These photos of a family home in an Ebola hit township tell me why Ebola easily transmit here!

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I'm professor Hans Rosling.

Let me show you
how ordinary people live

in those areas of West Africa

that are worst hit
by the Ebola epidemic.

Here, this is Liberia.

And when we zoom in,

you can see the capital Monrovia,

and this is the suburb West Point,

where some of
the poorest people live.

This is how they live!

A small little house
with only one room,

and one bed.

Father and mother and the children

sleep in the same room
where they eat their meals.

And when they get sick,

they need to go to the toilet -

this is how it looks, outside,

just close to the neighbour's toilet.

And there's no place
to wash your hands there:

they have to go back to the house,

where they have water,

and they wash
in this sort of utensils.

And then, when they should go

and wash their clothes,
this is what they have.

And even if the family
has the best knowledge

about the risks of infections,

when one family member get high fever,

and get sick and diarrhea and coughing,

there's no way they could isolate
the others from that person.

The home is just
too crammed, too small.

So they really need
as soon as possible

to get the Ebola treatment units,

the mobile hospitals in place,

so that the sick family member

could be brought there
and treated in a way

so that they don't
infect anyone else.

That's the way
to stop the Ebola epidemic

right now, where it is.