介绍:
A second healthcare worker in Texas, who treated the first patient in the US to be diagnosed with Ebola, has tested positive for the disease. CRI's Cao Yuwei with the update.
Reporter:
The new case was found after the country promised to step up efforts to stop the spread of Ebola in the country.
Tom Frieden is Director of the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention.
"Starting today (the CDC) is establishing a CDC Ebola response team, for any hospital anywhere in the country that has a confirmed case of Ebola, we will put a team on the ground within hours, with some of the world's leading experts in how to take care of and protect health care workers from Ebola infection."
The World Health Organization is warning there could be up to 10-thousand new Ebola cases a week by December.
United Nations System Coordinator for Ebola, Anthony Banbury, says the virus is "far ahead" of efforts to control it.
"Ebola got a head start on us. It is far ahead of us, it is running faster than us and it is winning the race."
Meantime Liberia's Ambassador to Italy Mohammed S. Sheriff, says Ebola is likely to cause a lingering food crisis in the infected countries.
"Even when we defeat the Ebola virus, the next crisis will be food crisis in Liberia, because you don't have anyone planting now. Because people are not able to gather together to go to a farm to produce, to plant anything. So right after the Ebola crisis, the next crisis we are going to have is food crisis in Liberia, Sierra Leone and also Guinea."
It's estimated that up to 40 percent of farms have been abandoned in areas of Sierra Leone.
The epidemic has also sent food prices soaring in Liberia.
For CRI, I'm Cao Yuwei.
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