WHO Timeline for Ebola Containment Proves Hard To Meet

The Associated Press, as carried by Salon, reports that the World Health Organization's intended timeline for limiting the spread of Ebola in the several West African countries where it has claimed thousands of lives has proved to be too optimistic. According to the article, Two months ago, the World Health Organization launched an ambitious plan to stop the deadly Ebola outbreak in West Africa, aiming to isolate 70 percent of the sick and safely Ebola 70 percent of the victims in the three hardest-hit countries — Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone — by December 1. Only Guinea is on track to meet the December 1 goal, according to an update from WHO. In Liberia, only 23 percent of cases are isolated and 26 percent of the needed burial teams are in place. In Sierra Leone, about 40 percent of cases are isolated while 27 percent of burial teams are operational.

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Re:WHO estimates that WHO's estimate is way low?

[Anonymous Coward]

You are confusing the terms 'report' and 'estimate' and using them interchangeably. WHO is *reporting* numbers fed to them by local governments and labs. They are *estimating* that the *reported* numbers are too low based on a number of factors. It's science.