Posted on 10/26/2014 4:24:26 PM PDT by Karl Spooner
KAYES, Mali (AP) — After 2-year-old Fanta Kone's father died in southern Guinea, the toddler's grandmother took her from the forested hills where the Ebola outbreak first began months ago to bring her home to Mali. It wasn't long, though, before the little girl started getting nosebleeds.
By the time the pair made their way back more than 600 miles to the heat-baked town of Kayes several days later, the toddler had a high fever and was vomiting blood. Doctors swiftly diagnosed Fanta with Ebola, but she soon succumbed to the virus already blamed for killing nearly 5,000 people in the region. Her grandmother, quarantined with a couple dozen others, could only watch from a distance in an isolation tent over the weekend as health workers in hazmat suits prepared the tiny corpse for burial.
There has been panic and fear in this town of 128,000 since news first spread of the girl's death, which was the country's first confirmed Ebola case about 10 months after the epidemic began in neighboring Guinea.
"We are in a panic — everyone is talking about Ebola," said Bruno Sodatonou, a 35-year-old restaurant worker in the town of 128,000. "We don't know how to protect ourselves. Some are now wearing gloves, while others are trying to avoid handshakes with people."
Mali — which shares a porous land border with Guinea — has long been seen as vulnerable to Ebola because of the large number of people moving back and forth between the two countries. Fanta's case has especially alarmed health authorities because she is believed to have been in a contagious state of Ebola as she traveled.
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hmmmmmmm
I suspect the nurse was part of a ‘deal’ by the CDC.
The CDC , for some reason, doesn’t want anyone (at least the US anyway) to ‘quarantine’. I bet the ‘lawsuit’ was discussed before she even left Africa.
How is Fanta’s cousin Sprite doing?
Please read this and comment: http://pissinontheroses.blogspot.com/2014/09/us-army-says-ebola-flu-in-airborne.html
Ebola has been around, that we know of since the late 1970s. Our federal government has invested a lot of money to find a vaccine. I am only vaguely aware of a vaccine that has been developed that has not been mass-marketed for some reason. Since Obama has become president there has been no work expended to prepare hospitals staff anywhere on how to treat people who have it or how to contain it. Mainly because Obama took his eyes off the ball. He allowed the research money to be petered away on failed sun energy technologies. He has allowed the virus to run wild as if all the research that was done previously was nothing.
I do believe that if we are to blame anyone it is the person who sits in the White House right now. He was responsible for placing the correct people in charge so that Ebola would be taken seriously and that every hospital would have what it needs to be ready for any outbreak.
Obama dropped the ball and now we are finding it hard to protect ourselves.
In sumary, it says a USARIID study found that under dry winter conditions, Ebola can be as infectious as Type-A Influenza. I have a co-worker who`s wife is a nurse at a big clinic system, I printed the study up and will give it to him, to forward to her, so she can ask her Doctor to look into it.
What parent with 2 working brain cells sends their kid off with grandma to an Ebola funeral?
Nor do they want any cures. They just want to spread it...
I guess you will have to explain your superiority.
Can anyone say “paid & willing participant”???
Did they even get granola bars? Lawyer up!
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