Peter Piot, the Belgian scientist who co-discovered the Ebola virus in 1976, on Tuesday said a “perfect storm” in West Africa had given the disease a chance to spread unchecked.
“We have never seen an (Ebola) epidemic on this scale,” Piot was quoted by the French daily paper Liberation as saying.
“In the last six months, we have been witnessing what can be described as a ‘perfect storm’ — everything is there for it to snowball,” he said.
The epidemic “is exploding in countries where health services are not functioning, ravaged by decades of civil war.”
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