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Police fire tear gas on crowd during Sierra Leone Ebola lockdown
Reuters ^
| Josephus Olu-Mammah and Umaru Fofana
Posted on 03/28/2015 5:51:18 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Police fired tear gas at an angry crowd fighting over food supplies in Sierra Leone on Saturday, while other residents defied a three-day national lockdown that the government hopes will accelerate the end of the Ebola epidemic.
Sierra Leone has reported nearly 12,000 cases and more than 3,000 deaths since the worst Ebola epidemic in history was detected in neighboring Guinea a year ago.
New cases have fallen sharply since a peak of more than 500 a week in December but the government says the lockdown, its second, is necessary to identify the last cases and to buck a worrying trend towards complacency.
Officials have ordered the six million residents to stay indoors on pain of arrest as hundreds of health officials go door-to-door looking for hidden patients and educating residents about the hemorrhagic fever.
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TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: ebola; sierraleone
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posted on
03/28/2015 5:51:19 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
Rumors going around that the Ebola vaccine is not very effective. Quite a few health care workers who had the vaccine in Sierra Leone were brought back for observation.
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posted on
03/28/2015 6:24:24 PM PDT
by
justa-hairyape
(The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way. Was)
To: 2ndreconmarine; Fitzcarraldo; Covenantor; Mother Abigail; EBH; Dog Gone; ...
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posted on
04/05/2015 12:46:30 PM PDT
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
To: Smokin' Joe
Thanks for all the pings.
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posted on
04/05/2015 1:07:29 PM PDT
by
PA Engineer
(Liberate America from the Occupation Media.)
To: BenLurkin; neverdem; ProtectOurFreedom; Mother Abigail; EBH; vetvetdoug; Smokin' Joe; Global2010; ..
If a quarantine saves just one child's life, it's worth it.
Bring out your dead! The Dark Man cometh! Bring out your dead! The Dark Man cometh! Bring out your......
(Since all records of obama's past were lost in a tragic boating accident and fire, no one can be certain that the guy in the red circle isn't him...)
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
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posted on
04/05/2015 1:09:16 PM PDT
by
null and void
(He who kills a tyrant (i.e. an usurper) to free his country is praised and rewarded ~ Thomas Aquinas)
To: PA Engineer
You’re Welcome. Some of them go back a little, sorry they are late.
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posted on
04/05/2015 1:11:36 PM PDT
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
To: Smokin' Joe
To: Alamo-Girl
You’re Welcome, Alamo-Girl!
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posted on
04/05/2015 8:26:13 PM PDT
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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