Scientists who have helped discover
Ebola virus says that he is merely concerned that if the disease could spread
to China given its large numbers of Chinese workers traveling from Africa.
Te director of London School of
Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) Peter Piot, said that it is not about “rocket
science” with many exchanges among two regions the disease could
spread.
The director’s concern is that if
you can really stop the people from traveling. These patients will show in any
country in different parts of the world and China is quite very vulnerable.
The issue is ‘quality’, standard
infection control. As I have visited China’s public hospitals there level of
infection control is at alarming rate (very poor). This was said by the
director.
He also added that China’s
controls for the infectious diseases have improved and there authorities become
more open about the public health risks since SARS (severe acute respiratory
syndrome) broke out in China in the year 2002. According to record SARS
infected 8,000 people worldwide, killing 800.
On the other hand, Japan has hygiene
and disease controls that are into international standards, but it needs to do
more to help combat what has become not just an epidemic but humanitarian
crisis, said by Piot.
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