Global Health Ebola Update 12/18

EBOLA

The Next Horror
The evolving Ebola crisis is now spinning out a secondary horror: mass hunger. 500,000 people in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone are going hungry and another half million people could join them if food supplies do not improve, UN agencies reported yesterday.

Ebola fear has caused labor shortages on farms, kept people away from markets and disrupted supply chains, worsening access and exacerbating the economic fallout from the crisis. Exports have dropped, leaving many without money to buy food, Thomson Reuters reports.

The Quote: "The outbreak has revealed the vulnerability of current food production systems and value chains in the worst Ebola-affected countries," Bukar Tijani, the Food and Agriculture Organisation's (FAO) representative for Africa said in a statement.
** Thomson Reuters (http://jhsph.us3.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=0a43ad874dbe00d8f0545cfef&id=6ebdbb19c9&e=9c1fcebfa3)

Related: Ebola total tops 18,000, with hints of slowing in Sierra Leone – ** CIDRAP (http://jhsph.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0a43ad874dbe00d8f0545cfef&id=4234e3a74b&e=9c1fcebfa3)


Related: How Rutgers and World of Warcraft 'corrupted blood' could help Ebola response – ** NewsWorks (http://jhsph.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0a43ad874dbe00d8f0545cfef&id=aef56ab168&e=9c1fcebfa3)


Related: Lessons From an Outbreak: How Ebola Shaped 2014 – ** The Atlantic (http://jhsph.us3.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=0a43ad874dbe00d8f0545cfef&id=3b0e18d407&e=9c1fcebfa3)


Related: Year in review: Science faces Ebola epidemic – ** ScienceNews (http://jhsph.us3.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=0a43ad874dbe00d8f0545cfef&id=3862996ccd&e=9c1fcebfa3)