on October 20, 2014
European Union foreign ministers thrashed out measures to help halt Ebola’s deadly spread on Monday, as Nigeria — Africa’s most populous country — was expected to be declared free of the disease.
The meeting in Luxembourg underlined the heightened concern in Europe about the virus. A Spanish nurse who was the first case of transmission outside Africa has been shown by tests to apparently be finally clear of her Ebola infection.
A civilian EU mission was one of the options being discussed by the EU ministers to aid the worst affected countries of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, as diplomats talked of a “tipping point” in the crisis, which has claimed more than 4,500 lives so far.
Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf warned Sunday that a generation of Africans were at risk of “being lost to economic catastrophe” because of the crisis.
The “time for talking or theorising is over,” she said in an open letter published by the BBC. “This fight requires a commitment from every nation that has the capacity to help — whether that is with emergency funds, medical supplies or clinical expertise.”
The EU foreign ministers will look closely at current efforts and what more needs to be done, not least in getting more skilled staff on the ground in Africa.
One proposal is to reassure medical workers on the Ebola frontline that they will get the back-up and, crucially, Western-level care if they fall sick with a disease for which there is no vaccine nor marketed cure.
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