Posted on 09/09/2014 9:43:49 AM PDT by Qiviut
Ebola virus is spreading exponentially across Liberia as patients fill taxis in a fruitless search for medical care, the World Health Organization said Monday.
The various reports illustrated in the clearest possible way the disparities driving the epidemic in West Africa, where there’s almost no medical system structure. The three patients evacuated to the United States have all begun to recover quickly once they get good supportive care, which includes around-the-clock nursing care and good nutrition.
WHO and other groups have been warning that the situation in Liberia and Sierra Leone and Guinea is dire. It’s especially bad in Liberia, WHO said Monday.
“Transmission of the Ebola virus in Liberia is already intense and the number of new cases is increasing exponentially,” WHO said in a statement.
“In Monrovia, taxis filled with entire families, of whom some members are thought to be infected with the Ebola virus, crisscross the city, searching for a treatment bed. There are none. As WHO staff in Liberia confirm, no free beds for Ebola treatment exist anywhere in the country.”
For example, in Montserrado county, 1,000 beds are urgently needed but only 240 beds are available. WHO has said more than 3,600 people have been infected with Ebola in this West African epidemic, and 2,000 have died, but the organization predicts as many as 20,000 will be sickened before it’s over. Half of those infected have been dying.
“When patients are turned away at Ebola treatment centers, they have no choice but to return to their communities and homes, where they inevitably infect others, perpetuating constantly higher flare-ups in the number of cases.”
The need for beds, supplies and staff have “completely outstripped” capacity, both of the Liberia government and of outside groups such as Who and Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) to help.
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So the doctor said, “Make an incision then suck the poison out.”
“What did the doctor say?!” Groin snake-bit man
“He said you’re gonna die. Sorry.”
Same reason it isn't happening in St. Louis, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Philly, Baltimore, D.C., Memphis, New Orleans, Oakland, and any other city that is predominantly dark and/or Democrat.
I’m assuming that’s her child standing there .... cute little guy ... and probably infected as well.
Probably so...
I’m not the one missing out on progress though. If the lame brains gave it a few minutes thought, they’d realize I don’t want them to live the life they are.
I want better for them than that.
Sort of “always in the moment” forever, purely a life of the physical, eat, sleep, sex, fight, exist, over and over, for thousands, and thousands, and thousands, of years.
Pretty much. I kind of see it as what a world without God would be like.
The kid looks highly mobile, and like he is enjoying his sandwich and mom’s doctor visit.
The conditions in Africa are unimaginable to us, everyone reading this thread has heard about the looting raid where they stole all the bloody and diarrhea wet Ebola sheets and blankets, to take home to use.
This could depopulate Africa. When the medical system breaks down AIDs will be resurgent as well as Ebola.
I agree with that. You just watch, five hundred years from now, Africa will still be a basket case.
There seems to be a mindset that others have to continually bail them out. I don’t think that changes.
Perhaps I’m being too harsh. You know, Africa stands the potential to bring the rest of the world down with it.
Think of it that way, and the sympathy factor goes down considerably.
On the other hand, helping them helps us. And in truth I don’t relish seeing anyone suffer. When does Africa get it’s “S” together and join the other Continents in the current century?
Sort of “always in the moment” forever, purely a life of the physical, eat, sleep, sex, fight, exist, over and over, for thousands, and thousands, and thousands, of years.
Pretty much. I kind of see it as what a world without God would be like.
Very intense and interesting line of thought!
Am I wrong, or have blacks basically gotten it in Britain? You sure don’t hear the same idiocy you hear about here.
Fact Check: Avg Life Expectancy in Liberia is 60 years in 2012
Other than the massive gang rapes, kidnappings, beheadings, and full-blown institutionalized racism against the white citizens subjects, the UK experiment with multi-culturalism is just peachy-keen, I guess.
Some of Britain's sub-humans are from the Pakistan region, some are of African origin; some are from the Caribbean regions.
The worst of Britain's sub-human problems are its white liberal Labour Party communists who are pushing for the nation's total destruction. Like our Democrats.
If you look closely at her, looks like she’s drooling ... vomit, I’m sure. Poor little guy - not a clue.
“The conditions in Africa are unimaginable to us” .... that’s the unvarnished truth for sure.
You want to help world hunger? Stop sending them food. Don’t send them another bite, send them U-Hauls. Send them a guy that says, “You know, we’ve been coming here giving you food for about 35 years now and we were driving through the desert, and we realized there wouldn’t BE world hunger if you people would live where the FOOD IS! YOU LIVE IN A DESERT!! UNDERSTAND THAT? YOU LIVE IN A FRICKIN DESERT!! NOTHING GROWS HERE! NOTHING’S GONNA GROW HERE! Come here, you see this? This is sand. You know what it’s gonna be 100 years from now? IT’S GONNA BE SAND!! YOU LIVE IN A FRICKIN DESERT! We have deserts in America, we just don’t live in them, yay holes!”
Would you say the problematic population you speak of, is as broad and widespread as ours is, or are we talking about a smaller percentage of the total?
LOL Send that in will ya!
Sam Kinison i thought it gave credit
I’m suggesting you could send that in for the idiots from our side of the pond, that haven’t quite figured out what you have.
“Perhaps I’m off base, but it seems to me what is taking place in Africa could have been avoided, if only the people there were more capable of making better choices.People in the Western world weren’t born with a spoon in their mouths. They had to work and scrape and create the nation we have today. Why didn’t that take place in Africa?”
A worker from Liberia with whom I’ve spoken and who speaks several times as day by cell phone with distraught family in Monrovia, says that those at the top in Liberia, once considered good for the country, have become corrupt, a situation similar to other countries in Africa. Liberia had a horrendous, bloody civil war, with whole villages and their populations destroyed. The woman describes her experience as a teenager watching her father being slaughtered by an invading gang and other relatives and villagers being maimed and fleeing to the forests.
She and others fled with Western help to Guinea, where she lived for years in a refugee camp. Her anger about Africa is verbalized and palpable.
The woman’s family reports the crying out to God and desperation that is taking place with the Ebola pandemic, with bodies left to die in the streets and fear rampant.
You touch on a number of the problems. It’s sad, but you can see it in the news. It’s as if the dark lord rules there, and his minions subvert everything.
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