Liberia's Ebola Curve Stopped Falling at 10 Cases/Day! — Factpod #11

This trend shows daily new cases confirmed by blood samples; not all suspected and probable cases. Since August the trend went up above 60 and then back down. But not to zero. It stayed around 10 new cases per day. The hunt can not stop until it reaches zero. The line in this video is available in SitRep 202 from the Ministry of Health of Liberia here: http://goo.gl/ZTMQcl

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This graph shows the number
of new cases of Ebola in Liberia,

from 15th of August all the way up
to the first week of December.

And look: in mid-august,
it was about 10 cases per day,

then started the catastrophe:
it increased like this,

and continued up to almost 70
registered cases in the end of September.

But there were also many missed
cases, so it may have reached

all the way up to
100 new cases per day.

But then we are very sure
that it came down like this,

during October, because the measures
taken in this country

were the right ones in the catastrophe:

cases were insulated,
population was informed,

they changed their behaviour,
the dead bodies were taken care of

with safety barriers:
everything went relatively well,

and we are down, now, here,
at ten per day.

But remember: the epidemic in Nigeria
never reached one case per day!

Nigeria didn't come up here,
so it's more then ten, twenty times

more difficult here today in Liberia,
then Nigeria ever had.

It means, we have now to make functioning

an almost perfect contact tracing system,

so that we can insulate
all new cases, very very rapidly,

before they transmit to others.

And that's what we're building now:
but it will take a lot of resources,

because we may go several
months into the next year,

because the objective is very clear:

we have to bring
Ebola transmission to zero!

The only safe and stable level
of Ebola is zero cases!