West Africa’s Ebola crisis is likely to last until the end of 2015, a leading researcher who helped to discover the virus has revealed.
Peter Piot, who has just returned from Sierra Leone, told the BBC that he was encouraged by progress there.
[contextly_sidebar id=”2VCXdiyjzUONzymILRIMelXJFarUCOCS”]He was however quick to add to add that the vaccines will take time to develop.
The current Ebola disease has so far killed over 7000 people.
Most of the victims have been in Sierra Leone, Liberia and other African countries.
Prof Piot was one of the scientists who discovered Ebola in 1976and is now Director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
He said that even though the outbreak has peaked in Liberia and was likely to peak in Sierra Leone in the next few weeks, the epidemic could have a “very long tail and a bumpy tail”.
He said he was impressed by the progress that he had seen in Sierra Leone, saying”Treatment centres have now been established across the country with British help. You don’t see any longer the scenes where people are dying in the streets”
By: citifmonline.com/Ghana