By JOHN HEILPRIN and KRISTA LARSON
Associated Press
Associated Press
GENEVA (AP)
-- The number of Ebola cases in West Africa could start doubling every
three weeks and it could cost nearly $1 billion to contain the crisis,
the World Health Organization said Tuesday.
Even
as President Barack Obama was expected to announce the deployment of
3,000 American forces to help provide aid in the region, Doctors Without
Borders said the global response to Ebola has been far short of what is
needed.
"The response to Ebola continues to
fall dangerously behind," Dr. Joanne Liu, president of the medical
charity, told a U.N. special briefing on Ebola in Geneva. "The window of
opportunity to contain this outbreak is closing. We need more countries
to stand up, we need greater deployment, and we need it now."
In a report released Tuesday, WHO said some
$987.8 million is needed for everything from paying health workers and
buying supplies to tracing people who have been exposed to the virus,
which is spread by contact with bodily fluids such as blood, urine or
diarrhea. Some $23.8 million alone is needed to pay burial teams and buy
body bags, since the bodies of Ebola victims are highly infectious and
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