Now that's the most improved war I've ever seen!
Posted on 11/24/2014 10:59:13 AM PST by SeekAndFind
A U.S. general in the force helping Liberia fight the Ebola epidemic reported on Monday a dramatic improvement in the situation there and confirmed the cancellation of two planned treatment facilities.
Brigadier General Frank Tate, deputy commanding general of U.S. Operation United Assistance, said the drop in the number of cases in the country was all the more encouraging given recent improvements in reporting capacity.
He said new daily cases have fallen to around 20 from close to 80 when the operation was announced in September. Ebola is still spreading in other parts of West Africa.
"It's a dramatic improvement," he told Reuters on the airstrip of a temporary U.S. logistics base in Dakar as dozens of U.S. soldiers boarded a Monrovia-bound Hercules aircraft.
"It was decided between USAID (U.S. Agency for International Development) and the Liberian government that two of the 17 Ebola Treatment Units was no longer necessary. They were canceled," he said.
Elsewhere in West Africa, the disease is still spreading, especially in neighboring Sierra Leone which recorded 533 new cases in the week to Nov. 16. At least six people have died from Ebola in Mali, whose government is now monitoring hundreds of contacts linked to Guinean imam whose symptoms went undetected.
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I wonder how much of the drop is real, how much is due to Liberia’s 3 day lock in, and how much is due to the Military opening up medical facilities.
Prayers for West Africa and sincere hope that this report is accurate.
Isolation aka quarantine is the best defense and offense.
I think that this is BS:
http://raconteurreport.blogspot.com/2014/11/taking-out-trash.html
http://raconteurreport.blogspot.com/2014/11/ebola-update-11212014.html
Now that's the most improved war I've ever seen!
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
Thanks for the ping!
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