Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone, Freetown, Sierra Leone ; Freetown City Council, Freetown, Sierra Leone.
National Institute of Parasitic Diseases, China CDC, Shanghai, People's Republic of China ; WHO Collaborating Center for Malaria, Schistosomiasis and Filariasis, Shanghai, People's Republic of China.
Infect Dis Poverty. 2015 Jan 26;4(1):10. doi: 10.1186/2049-9957-4-10. eCollection 2015.
Ebola virus disease has taken a toll on more than 8,000 lives in West Africa in 2014. The most affected countries are Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. The number of people infected by Ebola in Sierra Leone surpassed that of Liberia in the last month in this year and almost half of human cases are distributed in this country.
The ignorance on Ebola among people, including health workers at the early stage, plaid an important role in spread of Ebola virus disease. Subsequently, Ebola ravages urban settings for the first time and takes a huge toll on the lives. The government and international partners do make efforts to control the epidemic, however, lack of synergy make them lip service.
The leading role of government in the response to the epidemic should be emphasized. Basic information of Ebola should be quickly spread among communities by health education programme and social mobilization should be a basic measure for Ebola control.
2014 年，埃博拉病毒病在西非已造成 8000 多人死亡。受影响最严重的国家是几内亚、利比里亚和塞拉利昂。今年最后一个月，塞拉利昂感染埃博拉的人数超过了利比里亚，几乎一半的人类病例分布在这个国家。
在疫情早期，包括卫生工作者在内的人们对埃博拉的无知在埃博拉病毒病的传播中发挥了重要作用。随后，埃博拉病毒首次在城市地区肆虐，给人们的生命带来了巨大的损失。政府和国际合作伙伴确实在努力控制疫情，但缺乏协同作用使他们只是口头上说说而已。
应强调政府在应对疫情中的主导作用。应通过健康教育计划在社区中迅速传播埃博拉的基本信息，社会动员应该是控制埃博拉的基本措施。
