Chinese team arrives in Liberia to staff Ebola clinic

ca.reuters.com ^ | Sat Nov 15, 2014 5:12pm EST

[BenLurkin]

About 160 Chinese health workers arrived on Saturday in Liberia, where they are due to staff a new $41 million Ebola clinic that, unlike most other foreign interventions, is being built and fully run by Chinese personnel.

China, Africa's biggest trade partner, had come under fire for the level of its response to the Ebola crisis. But it said this week it would send 1,000 personnel to help fight an outbreak that has killed over 5,000 people in West Africa.

"Up to now in Liberia, China is the only country which provides not only the construction of an ETU (Ebola treatment unit), but also the running and operation and the staffing of an ETU," Chinese Ambassador Zhang Yue told Reuters.

The United States has pledged more money and personnel than any other nation pitching in to fight the worst Ebola outbreak on record. But its response is based on building clinics and training locals to run them.

Yue said the new team in Liberia included a mix of doctors, nurses, technicians and engineers.

[lee martell]

People used to make fun of the chaos shown in chinese cultures as they acted in massive waves, but with out coordination. Remember that phrase “Chinese Fire Drill”. Now, many aspects of Amercian life resemble that same depiction, i.e. Fergusson, i.e., Illegal Alien Invasion, i.e. Paid up Ebola lawsuits by Typhiod Marty’s family.

[wtd]

How convenient...

• November 13, Liberia president to end Ebola state of emergency

[dfwgator]

Better them than us.

[hondact200]

what happens if the chinese doctors nurses and others return to China and no quarantine ensues, does China go through a massive problem. The oddity is that the Philippines supposedly has a less virulent strain of Ebola going on too. What happens if both strains are combined together?

[null and void]

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...

[Henchster]

...they are due to staff a new $41 million Ebola clinic that, unlike most other foreign interventions, is being built and fully run by Chinese personnel.

Suspicious. Are we sure it is not a $41m weaponized Ebola research lab?

[voicereason]

Maybe the Chinese need more samples of Ebola for weaponization programs.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

The Chinese Ebola clinic: where patients become organ donors.

[DIRTYSECRET]

What’s a million chinese?

[SWAMPSNIPER]

Well, “they were made to wash their hands”, that’s a good start!

[Paulie]

I notice the Chinese dispatch health workers to do the job. Obama sends an already stretched military and the National Guard.

[Smokin' Joe]

Ping...

A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!