The Ebola epidemic from spreading in Africa faster and more. Now the Virus has reached Senegal, the fifth country in West Africa. In the case of the Infected is a 21-year-old student from the neighboring country of Guinea.
Health Minister Awa Marie Coll Seck confirmed the first case in the country. The world health organization (WHO) announced that the number of infections in West Africa increased during the past week, significantly more than in any comparable period since the onset of the disease.
The first Ebola Patient in Senegal was in isolation in a hospital in the capital, Dakar, the Minister said. Accordingly, it is a 21-year-old student from the neighboring country of Guinea. According to the Minister of information of Guinea, that there was a man who was under observation, had disappeared and may be in the Senegal stop.
Senegal had already closed the borders
In order to protect its own population against the disease, had Senegal closed last week its border to Guinea. Senegal is used to relief organizations such as the United Nations (UN) as a hub for their operations in the Western part of the Sahel. Also, many companies conduct their business in West Africa from the Ebola-affected country.
Unprecedented rise of infections
The WHO said that the negative record of the increase relates to each of the three mainly affected countries of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. Thus, in the 35. Calendar week, approximately 550 cases in the 34. Week there were close to 400 – a figure that was, until then, unprecedented.
The most dramatic development in Liberia. The mortality rate, the WHO estimated with an average of 51 percent in West Africa. It ranges from 41 percent in Sierra Leone to 66 percent in Guinea.
The first cases at the end of 2013 in Guinea
The pathogen first appeared – probably at the end of last year – in Guinea, spread to Liberia, then to Sierra Leone, and in July to Nigeria. The number of patients doubled, yet according to researchers at the Harvard University in Cambridge (USA) within approximately 35 days, they reported in the journal “Science”.
Up to the 26. August registered the WHO in the three countries and Nigeria, a total of 3069 confirmed and suspected cases, 1552 people died. In fact, the Numbers two to four Times could be so high, warned the organization.
France wants to push ahead with European support
In the fight against the epidemic, the French government wants to provide for additional European support. The Situation in the affected African countries is serious, it said on Friday in Élyséepalast in Paris.
France would do so at the EU summit this Saturday in Brussels for additional aid greatly. Europe must do more. The world health organization should be better supported. Paris also proposed a special European health Ministers meeting. 
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