UN envoy says 'war' on Ebola could take six more months

Freetown - The UN's Ebola envoy said Monday
the fight against the epidemic was a "war" which
could take six more months, as its global health
body claimed the disease was affecting an
"unprecedented" number of medical staff.
David Nabarro, a British physician the United
Nations appointed to coordinate the global
response to the crisis, was in Sierra Leone's
capital Freetown for the fifth day of a tour of the
region.
"The effort to defeat Ebola is not a battle but a
war which requires everybody working together,
hard and effectively," he told a news conference.