[BRIEF] According to the World Health Organization, the spread of Ebola across Europe is “quite unavoidable.”
WHO European Director Zsuzsanna Jakab commented Tuesday on the recent first case of Ebola contracted in Europe and said, “Such imported cases and similar events as have happened in Spain will happen also in the future, most likely.”
“It is quite unavoidable … that such incidents will happen in the future because of the extensive travel both from Europe to the affected countries and the other way around.”
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Jakab warned that more cases will spread across Europe and that the continent should be well prepared to control the disease.
At the top of the list of those at risk for infection are health workers, according to Jakab, who added, “The most important thing in our view is that Europe is still at low risk and that the western part of the European region particularly is the best prepared in the world to respond to viral haemorrhagic fevers including Ebola.”