Ebola facility in Liberia attacked; patients flee

CNNN ^ | 8/18/14 | Ashley Fantz

[TangledUpInBlue]

Ebola patients fled during an attack at a health care facility in Monrovia, Liberia, on Saturday, Liberian National Police spokesman Sam Collins told CNN on Sunday.

All patients who ran away had Ebola, and some chose to stay at the facility, Collins said.

The assailants stole mattresses and equipment, he said, adding that no one was injured in the incident and the attackers were not trying to free the patients; rather, they did not want the quarantine there. The assailants were using weapons but not wielding guns, according to Collins.

"It was an attack from people afraid of Ebola," Collins told CNN. "Everybody is afraid."

[TangledUpInBlue]

WTF?? Why would you steal the patient's matresses??? Sounds like suicide to me.

Very odd. Either an attempt to spread the virus or kill those who had it and they apparently accomplished neither.

[Don Corleone]

People living in a primitive tribal subculture where shamans rattle bones and blow smoke are those we want to trust with global health. This can become the “Black Plague” of the 21st Century.

[Netz]

Boy, those Africans really know how to screw themselves over.
They're as bad as the Arabs who kill aid workers and destroy the very facilities that are supposed to be there to help them.

The Paleostinians even use UNWRA facilities to hide missiles.

What a bunch of dumbf***s...

[null and void]

The assailants were using weapons but not wielding guns, according to Collins.

Machetes. There are few tools better suited to spattering blood over all the surrounding areas, including the wielder..

"Idiots" doesn't even begin to describe it.

[allendale]

This is very bizarre. Why would anybody loot an Ebola hospital and steal the linens and bedding? Anxious and frightened people can be induced to do strange things. Sounds like some charismatic shaman whipped these people up as part of a pagan ritual.

[null and void]

Yet another article about this event.

It's like an incipient train wreck, you just can't quite not watch...

Eeeee-bolllll-aaaaaa ping!

Bring Out Your Dead

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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...

[Abathar]

This is my biggest fear with what is going on, the lack of quarantine is frightening from a terror standpoint.

Their are plenty of jihadists willing to strap a bomb on themselves and get their 72 virgins, must be a few willing to go a different route and even spread more carnage in the west.

Exposed, they have a couple of weeks before symptoms show. Get a few across our criminally open border in Mexico, wait until they become contagious and send them out into the world with pockets stuffed with cash and a list of all the all-you-can-eat buffets on the east and west coast.

Make 9-11 look like a picnic outing for the cost of a few plane tickets and cab fare, and yet political correctness and vote buying potential makes stopping it with this administration all but impossible.

[nonliberal]

The average sub-Saharan African has the IQ of a bush rat. The next plague will come from this filthy, uneducated, illiterate culture.

[Smokin' Joe]

Ping...

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

[TexasRepublic]

That’s slander against bush rats.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[Smokin' Joe]

You’re Welcome, Alamo-Girl!