Liberia shuts hospital where Spanish priest infected, Ebola death toll hits 932

ChicagoTribune ^ | 8/6/2014

[EBH]

In Saudi Arabia, a man suspected of contracting Ebola during a recent business trip to Sierra Leone also died early on Wednesday in Jeddah, the Health Ministry said. Saudi Arabia has already suspended pilgrimage visas from West African countries, which could prevent those hoping to visit Mecca for the Haj in early October.

Liberia, where the death toll is rising fastest, is struggling to cope. Many residents are panicking, in some cases casting out the bodies of family members onto the streets of Monrovia to avoid quarantine measures.

Beneath heavy rain, ambulance sirens wailed through the otherwise quiet streets of Monroviaon Wednesday as residents heeded a government request to stay at home for three days of fasting and prayers. ...

Many regular hospitals and clinics have been forced to close across Liberia, often because health workers are too afraid of contracting the virus themselves or because of abuse by locals who think the disease is a government conspiracy.

In an effort to control the disease's spread, Liberia has deployed the army to implement controls and isolate severely affected communities, an operation codenamed "White Shield".

[from occupied ga]

truth emulates fiction?

[P.O.E.]

Many regular hospitals and clinics have been forced to close across Liberia

Oh, that's a big help.

[zipper]

We should send them planeloads of marijuana.

Because it’s a known cure for almost everything, don’cha know.

[Jim Noble]

Saudi Arabia has already suspended pilgrimage visas from West African countries

In the world we live in, it is actually surprising when a government does something right.

[CorporateStepsister]

Trust the Saudis to think of the preservation of their people; imagine if Ebola started infecting pilgrims.

[EBH]

I would underestimate the opportunity for a bio warwarfare strike by ISIS. they may choose to create their own false flag event

[DCBryan1]

an operation codenamed "White Shield".

Sounds like DOJ/IRS operation against tea partiers to me!

[353FMG]

“In Saudi Arabia, a man suspected of contracting Ebola during a recent business trip to Sierra Leone also died early on Wednesday in Jeddah....”

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Hopefully, this businessman flew his private plane by himself after which the plane was immediately quarantined upon arrival.

[trisham]

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[EBH]

My first thought was .,.that’s racist.