{"id":2313,"date":"2014-12-02T07:24:45","date_gmt":"2014-12-02T12:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2313"},"modified":"2014-12-02T07:24:45","modified_gmt":"2014-12-02T12:24:45","slug":"2014-goals-for-ebola-treatment-may-not-be-met-u-n-health-officials-say-nytimes-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2313","title":{"rendered":"2014 Goals for Ebola Treatment May Not Be Met, U.N. Health Officials Say &#8211; NYTimes.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/12\/02\/world\/africa\/goals-for-ebola-treatment-may-not-be-met-who-official-says.html?ref=science&amp;_r=0\">2014 Goals for Ebola Treatment May Not Be Met, U.N. Health Officials Say &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p id=\"story-continues-1\" class=\"story-body-text story-content\" style=\"font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.4375rem; font-weight: 400; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; width: 540px; max-width: 540px; margin: 0px 0px 1em 135px;\" data-para-count=\"262\" data-total-count=\"262\">GENEVA \u2014 The\u00a0<a style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #326891;\" title=\"More articles about World Health Organization\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/organizations\/w\/world_health_organization\/index.html?inline=nyt-org\">World Health Organization<\/a>expressed doubt on Monday about achieving important\u00a0<a style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #326891;\" title=\"More articles about the United Nations.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/organizations\/u\/united_nations\/index.html?inline=nyt-org\">United Nations<\/a>benchmarks in battling\u00a0<a style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #326891;\" title=\"More articles about ebola.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/subjects\/e\/ebola\/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier\">Ebola<\/a>, saying the year-end goals of isolating and treating all patients and safely burying all the dead would be major challenges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" style=\"font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.4375rem; font-weight: 400; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; width: 540px; max-width: 540px; margin: 0px 0px 1em 135px;\" data-para-count=\"189\" data-total-count=\"451\">However, the W.H.O. said, significant progress has been made in reversing the upward trajectory of\u00a0<a class=\"meta-classifier\" style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #326891;\" title=\"More articles about ebola.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/subjects\/e\/ebola\/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier\">Ebola<\/a>\u00a0cases in many places across the three West African countries ravaged by the disease.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" style=\"font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.4375rem; font-weight: 400; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; width: 540px; max-width: 540px; margin: 0px 0px 1em 135px;\" data-para-count=\"276\" data-total-count=\"727\">Among the biggest challenges now, the agency\u2019s top official for the Ebola response said, is to track down every person potentially exposed. To do this, the organization plans to nearly double the number of its experts on the ground to assist 20,000 community health workers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" style=\"font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.4375rem; font-weight: 400; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; width: 540px; max-width: 540px; margin: 0px 0px 1em 135px;\" data-para-count=\"157\" data-total-count=\"884\">\u201cTo get to zero you have to find every case,\u201d the official, Bruce Aylward, assistant director general for emergencies, told reporters at a briefing here.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" style=\"font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.4375rem; font-weight: 400; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; width: 540px; max-width: 540px; margin: 0px 0px 1em 135px;\" data-para-count=\"437\" data-total-count=\"1321\">The geography of Ebola has shifted, further complicating the efforts to eradicate it: For instance, in Guinea, Ebola is now thought to be in nearly twice as many districts as it was just two months ago, when the\u00a0<a class=\"meta-org\" style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #326891;\" title=\"More articles about the United Nations.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/organizations\/u\/united_nations\/index.html?inline=nyt-org\">United Nations<\/a>\u00a0established a new mission to coordinate the international response. And in Sierra Leone, Ebola is ravaging the western part of the country, while only a handful of new cases are surfacing in previous hot spots.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" style=\"font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.4375rem; font-weight: 400; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; width: 540px; max-width: 540px; margin: 0px 0px 1em 135px;\" data-para-count=\"437\" data-total-count=\"1321\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2014 Goals for Ebola Treatment May Not Be Met, U.N. Health Officials Say &#8211; NYTimes.com. GENEVA \u2014 The\u00a0World Health Organizationexpressed doubt on Monday about achieving important\u00a0United Nationsbenchmarks in battling\u00a0Ebola, saying the year-end goals of isolating and treating all patients and safely burying all the dead would be major challenges. 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