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Ebola kills top Liberian doctor, 2 Americans infected | |
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Sir France's Beercan  User ID: 60809320  Austria07/28/2014 04:41 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | [link to www.washingtonpost.com] Quoting: Anonymous Coward 60188606 MONROVIA, Liberia — One of Liberia’s most high-profile doctors has died of Ebola, officials said Sunday, and an American physician was being treated for the deadly virus, highlighting the risks facing health workers trying to combat an outbreak that has killed more than 670 people in West Africa — the largest ever recorded. A second American, a missionary working in the Liberian capital, was also taken ill and was being treated in isolation there, said the pastor of a North Carolina church that sponsored her work [i]Airlines and airports scrambling to respond around the world: [link to www.news.com.au] A MAN collapses at an international airport: It’s a hackneyed scene from almost every plague film ever made. But now it has happened — airports around the world are on high alert as fears mount that the deadly Ebola virus is on the move. Holy shit! From the second link: "Nearly 50 other passengers on the flight are being monitored for signs of Ebola but are not being kept in isolation, said an employee at Nigeria’s Ministry of Health, who insisted on anonymity because he was not authorised to speak to the press." Why aren't they in quarantine!? Edit to add: these were the people on the plane with the guy who was vomiting and shitting then died on the plane. Last Edited by Sir France's Beercan on 07/28/2014 04:44 AM |
| Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 60188606 South Africa07/28/2014 05:01 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | [link to www.nytimes.com] Fear of Ebola breeds a terror of physicians Workers and officials, blamed by panicked populations for spreading the virus, have been threatened with knives, stones and machetes, their vehicles sometimes surrounded by hostile mobs. Log barriers across narrow dirt roads block medical teams from reaching villages where the virus is suspected. Sick and dead villagers, cut off from help, are infecting others. “This is very unusual, that we are not trusted,” said Marc Poncin, the emergency coordinator in Guinea for Doctors Without Borders, the main group fighting the disease here. “We’re not stopping the epidemic.” Efforts to monitor it are grinding to a halt because of “intimidation,” he said. People appear to have more confidence in witch doctors. What is Ebola? - [link to abcnews.go.com] |
