Australia’s Prime Minister has refused to commit personnel to battle ebola directly inside Africa, although the country has committed $18 million in financial resources to assist West Africa contain the outbreak.
The Australian news agency reports that “growth is out of control” and cases in Liberia are doubling every 15 – 20 days.
It is important to be aware that these models are based on known or reported cases – however, all medical personnel have affirmed that no one truly knows the number of actual cases, because many rural areas are refusing to cooperate with investigators.
ebola graph

Dark blue shows the number of actual cases while light blue is projections for the next four weeks.

IT’S the deadliest Ebola outbreak the world has seen — claiming more than 4033 lives and infecting double that as it rampages around the world. (link)

A collaborative group at Northeastern University is updating their predictive models based in part on air traffic load patterns weekly.  Currently, the greatest volume of air passengers from West Africa are to the US and the UK.
They predict that as of October 31st, the countries with the highest risk for importation of infected ebola patients are:
Ghana, The United States, France, Senegal, Ivory Coast, United Kingdom, Nigeria, Belgium, Gambia.
https://www.mobs-lab.org/ebola.html
Based on the predictive modeling, any decrease in air passengers from hot zones to non-infected areas would in fact also dramatically decrease the number of infections in currently non-infected regions of the world.

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