Watchman News Ebola fears grow as European and Asian countries on alert

A LEADING medical charity has warned that the outbreak of the deadly west African Ebola virus is out of control and there are fears it “can only get worse”.

Doctors Without Borders (MSF) says the crisis gripping Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone could spread to other continents and warns there is no overarching strategy to handle the world’s worst-ever outbreak of the disease.

In the UK, a man has been tested for Ebola in Birmingham after arriving back there from Nigeria via Paris.

Although the man was given the all-clear, the case has prompted fears that the deadly disease could spread to Britain.

Bart Janssens, MSF’s director of operations, warned that governments and global bodies had no “overarching view” or vision of how to tackle the outbreak.

“This epidemic is unprecedented, absolutely out of control and the situation can only get worse, because it is still spreading, above all in Liberia and Sierra Leone, in some very important hotspots,” he said.

“If the situation does not improve fairly quickly, there is a real risk of new countries being affected,” he told La Libre Belgique newspaper.

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