{"id":19692,"date":"2014-08-19T14:42:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-19T14:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/travel-companies-alert-but-not-alarmed-at-west-africa-ebola-outbreak\/"},"modified":"2014-08-19T14:42:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-19T14:42:00","slug":"travel-companies-alert-but-not-alarmed-at-west-africa-ebola-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2014\/08\/travel-companies-alert-but-not-alarmed-at-west-africa-ebola-outbreak\/","title":{"rendered":"Travel companies alert but not alarmed at West Africa Ebola outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"
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G Adventures guests explore the Gambia River in West Africa (R Eime<\/a>)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Cruise, adventure and safari companies watching and waiting on West Africa Ebola scare. <\/b><\/p>\n

Media reports coming from West African countries gripped by Ebola virus panic are sending waves of fear into the travel industry. Travel companies are countering this perceived threat with education.<\/p>\n

At time of writing, the death toll from the lethal virus had just exceeded 1200 with as many again infected, at least half of whom can be expected to die from the disease, a type of hemorrhagic fever. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Affected areas as at
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Currently the outbreak is confined to Sierra Leone, Guinea, Liberia and Nigeria with neighbouring countries on alert.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a full ship going up the coast from Cape Town to Morocco<\/a>,\u201d said Bruce Poon Tip, CEO of G Adventures<\/a> to Travel Pulse in April. \u201cBut now we’re dealing with all the border restrictions from countries that have been hit with the Ebola virus, who are closing off borders between countries.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cThe World Health Organization is now doing a lot of work,\u201d said Poon Tip. \u201cThese are destinations that are on our trip. Liberia has now closed its border, so we\u2019re looking at how to handle that at the moment. Doctors Without Borders is playing a big part, because these areas are so remote and so removed. And they don\u2019t have access to medical services so people become fearful of going there. We\u2019re hoping it doesn\u2019t spread. And we\u2019re working with how we\u2019re going to work our itinerary around it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The disease has spread since Poon Tip\u2019s comments. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Ebola may be deadly, but it’s
actually difficult to catch.<\/b><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n