Centers for Disease Control Director says Ebola Is ‘Worse Than I’d Feared’

Dr. Tom Frieden told CNN the Ebola outbreak is "much bigger" than anyone anticipated

In an interview with CNN on Wednesday, the director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. Tom Frieden, said the Ebola outbreak in West Africa is a “much bigger problem than anyone anticipated.”

Dr. Tom Frieden, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, testifies during a hearing before the Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights and International Organizations Subcommittee of the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Aug. 7, 2014 in Washington, D.C. Alex Wong—Getty Images

“It’s even worse than I’d feared,” Frieden said in an interview with CNN in Liberia.
Liberia is one of several West African countries at the epicenter of the world’s largest outbreak in history of the deadly virus. Over 1,400 people have died in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. The virus has also spread to Nigeria, where the outbreak has killed five people and prompted the shuttering of public schools until October.
But Frieden says hope is not lost; Ebola can be stopped.
“We can stop Ebola,” he said Wednesday, noting that the virus is spread through contact with body fluids, which has often come as a result of caring for the sick and during burial after the infected have perished. “We need to work together to care for people so that they can get the support they need without spreading in communities.”
He added, “The sooner the world comes together to help Liberia and West Africans, the safer we will all be.”

There’s an unconfirmed report that A doctor in PH, who secretly treated a diplomat who had contact with the index case, Liberian-American Patrick Sawyer, has died of Ebola.
The doctor, who has yet to be named, died on Friday. His wife has also taken ill and has been quarantined in Port Harcourt. Interestingly, the diplomat treated by the doctor is still alive.
The diplomat, who was part of the team who met with Patrick Sawyer in Lagos, flew to Port Harcourt, Rivers State for treatment, evading Nigerian federal government surveillance for the disease. The late doctor then took him to a hotel for treatment.
As a result of this, 70 people have been quarantined. The doctor’s hospital, Good Heart Hospital in Rivers State, has been shut down. The unnamed hotel, where the secret treatment took place, has also been shut down.
The Minister of Health and the Rivers State government are expected to make a statement on the incident tomorrow.
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There’s an unconfirmed report that A doctor in PH, who secretly treated a diplomat who had contact with the index case, Liberian-American Patrick Sawyer, has died of Ebola.
The doctor, who has yet to be named, died on Friday. His wife has also taken ill and has been quarantined in Port Harcourt. Interestingly, the diplomat treated by the doctor is still alive.
The diplomat, who was part of the team who met with Patrick Sawyer in Lagos, flew to Port Harcourt, Rivers State for treatment, evading Nigerian federal government surveillance for the disease. The late doctor then took him to a hotel for treatment.
As a result of this, 70 people have been quarantined. The doctor’s hospital, Good Heart Hospital in Rivers State, has been shut down. The unnamed hotel, where the secret treatment took place, has also been shut down.
The Minister of Health and the Rivers State government are expected to make a statement on the incident tomorrow.
- See more at: http://www.ngtrends.com/2014/08/doctor-dies-of-ebola-virus-in-port-harcourt-70-people-quarantined/#sthash.2MPxlf3q.dpuf

There’s an unconfirmed report that A doctor in PH, who secretly treated a diplomat who had contact with the index case, Liberian-American Patrick Sawyer, has died of Ebola.
The doctor, who has yet to be named, died on Friday. His wife has also taken ill and has been quarantined in Port Harcourt. Interestingly, the diplomat treated by the doctor is still alive.
The diplomat, who was part of the team who met with Patrick Sawyer in Lagos, flew to Port Harcourt, Rivers State for treatment, evading Nigerian federal government surveillance for the disease. The late doctor then took him to a hotel for treatment.
As a result of this, 70 people have been quarantined. The doctor’s hospital, Good Heart Hospital in Rivers State, has been shut down. The unnamed hotel, where the secret treatment took place, has also been shut down.
The Minister of Health and the Rivers State government are expected to make a statement on the incident tomorrow.
- See more at: http://www.ngtrends.com/2014/08/doctor-dies-of-ebola-virus-in-port-harcourt-70-people-quarantined/#sthash.2MPxlf3q.dpuf

There’s an unconfirmed report that A doctor in PH, who secretly treated a diplomat who had contact with the index case, Liberian-American Patrick Sawyer, has died of Ebola.
The doctor, who has yet to be named, died on Friday. His wife has also taken ill and has been quarantined in Port Harcourt. Interestingly, the diplomat treated by the doctor is still alive.
The diplomat, who was part of the team who met with Patrick Sawyer in Lagos, flew to Port Harcourt, Rivers State for treatment, evading Nigerian federal government surveillance for the disease. The late doctor then took him to a hotel for treatment.
As a result of this, 70 people have been quarantined. The doctor’s hospital, Good Heart Hospital in Rivers State, has been shut down. The unnamed hotel, where the secret treatment took place, has also been shut down.
The Minister of Health and the Rivers State government are expected to make a statement on the incident tomorrow.
- See more at: http://www.ngtrends.com/2014/08/doctor-dies-of-ebola-virus-in-port-harcourt-70-people-quarantined/#sthash.2MPxlf3q.dpuf

There’s an unconfirmed report that A doctor in PH, who secretly treated a diplomat who had contact with the index case, Liberian-American Patrick Sawyer, has died of Ebola.
The doctor, who has yet to be named, died on Friday. His wife has also taken ill and has been quarantined in Port Harcourt. Interestingly, the diplomat treated by the doctor is still alive.
The diplomat, who was part of the team who met with Patrick Sawyer in Lagos, flew to Port Harcourt, Rivers State for treatment, evading Nigerian federal government surveillance for the disease. The late doctor then took him to a hotel for treatment.
As a result of this, 70 people have been quarantined. The doctor’s hospital, Good Heart Hospital in Rivers State, has been shut down. The unnamed hotel, where the secret treatment took place, has also been shut down.
The Minister of Health and the Rivers State government are expected to make a statement on the incident tomorrow.
- See more at: http://www.ngtrends.com/2014/08/doctor-dies-of-ebola-virus-in-port-harcourt-70-people-quarantined/#sthash.2MPxlf3q.dpuf