The longer
the Ebola epidemic continues infecting people unabated the higher the
chances it will mutate and become airborne, the UN's Ebola response
chief has warned.
Anthony
Banbury, the Secretary General's Special Representative, has said there
is a 'nightmare' prospect the deadly disease will become airborne if it
continues infecting new hosts.
His
comments come as organisations battling the crisis in West Africa
warned the international community has just four weeks to stop its
spread before it spirals 'completely out of control'.
And
the British nurse who survived the disease said the 'horror and
misery' of watching young children die from the disease must be avoided
'at all costs'.
Mr Banbury told the Telegraph that aid workers were fighting a race against time amid fears the disease will begin to mutate.
He
said: 'The longer it moves around in human hosts in the virulent
melting pot that is West Africa, the more chances increase that it could
mutate.
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