On
the same day leaders of the EU and Africa were meeting in Brussels, the people
of Guinea, in West Africa, continued to dread the Ebola fever that has now killed
close to a hundred people and is still out of control. The government in
Conakry has not enough capacity to stop this epidemic. The health services,
with the help of some international NGOs, are just overwhelmed. And the risks
of contagion across the border into Sierra Leone and Liberia are very real.
But
there has been no voice in the leading circles of Europe to raise the issue and
call for an urgent, large scale and highly specialised assistance to be sent to
Guinea and the neighbours, to help them to effectively respond to a disease
that kills close to 95 people on every 100 that can infected.
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