JUST seven months after the worst Ebola epidemic in history started, people in West African countries most affected by it are being cut down not only from this increasingly galloping fatal disease, but also from a looming famine. As if the under-equipped and severely overwhelmed healthcare system wasnt bad enough, as if their precious and experienced doctors and nurses werent slowly being picked off ” now, fear and illness have disrupted the food supply chain. Some quarantined patients dont get fed (causing them to go out, looking for food), and some Ebola orphans are literally starving to death because there is no one to feed them. And the prognosis for the battle against this epidemic is not good: by December, this disease, which has a 70 per cent fatality rate, is expected to escalate to 10,000 transmissions a week.
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