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Ebola patients flee armed attack on Liberian isolation ward
Daily Mail ^ | 17 August 2014 | Sam Webb for MailOnline

Posted on 08/17/2014 7:29:39 AM PDT by CorporateStepsister

Armed men attacked an Ebola isolation ward in the Liberian capital Monrovia overnight, prompting 29 patients to flee the facility, witnesses said Sunday.

'They broke down the doors and looted the place. The patients all fled,' said Rebecca Wesseh, who witnessed the attack and whose report was confirmed by residents and the head of Health Workers Association of Liberian, George Williams.

Meanwhile, a Nigerian man was today at the centre of an Ebola health scare on the Spanish Costas, which contains an estimated British population of more than 82,000.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: africa; attack; british; ebola; ebolaoutbreak; health; healthscare; isolation; isolationward; liberia; liberian; monrovia; nigeria; population; spanishcostas
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To: CorporateStepsister

How do disease-spread models account for the (insane) human factor?


21 posted on 08/17/2014 8:35:46 AM PDT by PTBAA
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To: CMB_polarization
Good news in the sense that the Jihadists will now catch the deadly bug for which there is no cure. They love to wallow in blood. Perhaps the virus will do what no one else has been able to do - wipe them out.
22 posted on 08/17/2014 8:36:37 AM PDT by iontheball
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To: CorporateStepsister

Superstition combined with colossal ignorance and conspiracy theories is signing the death warrants for thousands. This is about the worst thing which could happen. The entire country must be quarantined at the very least but I’m afraid PC will prevent it.

The realization that they have signed their own death certificates and those of everyone they love will come too late.


23 posted on 08/17/2014 8:41:23 AM PDT by JimSEA
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To: CorporateStepsister

Now I guess they are oppressed and fear for their life in their home country. The Messiah will grease the skids for them to be relocated in a town near you.


24 posted on 08/17/2014 8:53:15 AM PDT by Flint
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

No Justice! No Police!
Candle light looting to follow protest.
Bring your own shopping bags...


25 posted on 08/17/2014 8:56:57 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: CorporateStepsister

Sky News Newsdesk @SkyNewsBreak · 37m

Spanish media: #ebola alert protocols have been activated after a Nigerian man was admitted to hospital in Alicante with fever and vomiting


26 posted on 08/17/2014 9:11:27 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: CorporateStepsister

Deutsche Welle article on same incident using several sources. Despite the discrepancies in number of Ebola patients (17 here) any number of infected patients with a large viral load in Liberia’s largest city are a horror. Might well be the real reason the government shut down one of the papers.

http://m.dw.de/english/mobile.A-17859597-9097.html

Patients missing after raid on Liberia Ebola clinic

Authorities in Liberia’s capital city, Monrovia, have warned of the spread of Ebola after a local clinic was ransacked. The patients quarantined there left the site and their whereabouts remain unknown.

Police in Liberia’s capital city had restored order by Sunday afternoon following a raid on a local Ebola clinic. However, they warned that local residents now faced a higher risk of exposure to the deadly virus, as the perpetrators had not only stolen infected items, but had also prompted patients to flee.

“They broke down the door and looted the place. The patients have all gone,” Rebecca Wesseh, a witness to the incident, told the news agency AFP.

A police official speaking to the Associated Press news agency also described the incident, which took place on Saturday evening, as a “looting spree.”

The circumstances surrounding the break in in the district of West Point remained unclear on Sunday. Witness accounts reported by news agencies suggested that a group of armed young men had attacked the quarantine center, claiming that Ebola was a fiction.

According to the Associated Press, the group stole a number of items that had visible signs of contamination.

AFP reported that 17 patients had fled the scene after the raid on Saturday night.

The current outbreak of Ebola has become an international health emergency. In the six months since the first diagnosis of the current outbreak, about 1,145 people have died across Liberia, Guinea, Sierra Leone and Nigeria.

Officials in Kenya have announced a travel ban on incoming passengers from the West Africa countries hit by the epidemic.


27 posted on 08/17/2014 9:14:50 AM PDT by Covenantor ("Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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To: iontheball

All manner of low-tech methods exist for spreading contagion which I will not detail here.


28 posted on 08/17/2014 9:17:18 AM PDT by CMB_polarization
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To: Covenantor

That sends my paranoia meter into overdrive. Terrorists steal contaminated items, bring them to Western countries, and so on.


29 posted on 08/17/2014 9:18:01 AM PDT by petitfour
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To: iontheball

Isn’t Ramadan and the influx of pilgrims to Mecca about to start?


30 posted on 08/17/2014 10:12:10 AM PDT by tbw2
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To: null and void

Jeeze, Nully. I can’t believe you didn’t ping me so I could scream, “WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE!”


31 posted on 08/17/2014 10:40:07 AM PDT by Monkey Face (I tried to be normal once. Worst two minutes of my life.)
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To: CorporateStepsister

How much of a concern do you think this is ...

Cruise companies who hire workers from all over the world for cheap labor and hiring Africans carrying ebola? Wouldn’t this make cruising a danger at this time?


32 posted on 08/17/2014 10:54:57 AM PDT by George from New England (escaped CT in 2006, now living north of Tampa)
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To: CorporateStepsister

They stole everything they could including bloody and contaminated sheets.
This is going to bite them all back hard.


33 posted on 08/17/2014 11:06:39 AM PDT by Fear The People (When the government fears the people, you have LIBERTY.)
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To: CorporateStepsister

So, what’s to loot in an isolation ward? Mattresses, bedding, etc. Looting could carry its own reward.


34 posted on 08/17/2014 11:30:51 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: 2ndreconmarine; Fitzcarraldo; Covenantor; Mother Abigail; EBH; Dog Gone; ...
Ping...

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

35 posted on 08/17/2014 11:35:11 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: pallis
How stupid can they be? ...There is no finite answer to that question.

True. Knowledge is limited, stupidity boundless.

36 posted on 08/17/2014 11:38:43 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: null and void

LOLOL I want on the list...

You guys are just way too funny for your own good.


37 posted on 08/17/2014 12:18:33 PM PDT by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: Morgana

Done! Welcome aboard!


38 posted on 08/17/2014 12:23:22 PM PDT by null and void (If Bill Clinton was the first black president, why isn't Barack Obama the first woman president?)
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To: diplomatic_immunity
I can't even comprehend the level of ignorance and superstition

Another probelm now is that many of the foreign workers who had been caring for them have left. These foreign do-gooders have enabled Africans to not learn to take care of Ebola themselves, and these Africans don't seem willing to take on that responsibility.

At this point, the best thing that could happen would to not let ANYONE leave areas where Ebola has spread without being in a very long quarantine. Won't happen.

39 posted on 08/17/2014 12:24:45 PM PDT by grania
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To: PTBAA
Hoa do disease-spread models account for the (insane) human factor?

Good models would. If the disease spreads too rapidly, the numbers infected go tangental. That's chaos.

40 posted on 08/17/2014 12:27:05 PM PDT by grania
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