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Fear, cash shortages hinder fight against Ebola outbreak
Reuters ^ | 7-2-14 | KWASI KPODO

Posted on 07/02/2014 6:30:00 PM PDT by dynachrome

West African states lack the resources to battle the world's worst outbreak of Ebola and deep cultural suspicions about the disease remain a big obstacle to halting its spread, ministers said on Wednesday.

The outbreak has killed 467 people in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone since February, making it the largest and deadliest ever, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). snipJeremy Farrar, a professor of tropical medicine and director of The Wellcome Trust, an influential global health charity, said people at high risk should also be offered experimental medicines, despite the drugs not having been fully tested.

"We have more than 450 deaths so far, and not a single individual has been offered anything beyond tepid sponging and 'we'll bury you nicely'," Farrar told Reuters in an interview. "It's just unacceptable."

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: africa; ebola; plague
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Not good.
1 posted on 07/02/2014 6:30:00 PM PDT by dynachrome
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To: null and void

Bring out yer ebola dead ping.


2 posted on 07/02/2014 6:30:48 PM PDT by dynachrome (Vertrou in God en die Mauser)
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To: dynachrome
On the one hand, I do not support euthanasia.
On the other hand, I think dying people should be given experimental drugs, if they are willing.

I see no contradiction.

What I find bizarre is that we withhold medicine from dying people because -- "Who knows? It might make them sick!"

3 posted on 07/02/2014 6:38:45 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy ("Harvey Dent, can we trust him?" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBsdV--kLoQ)
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To: dynachrome

Is this something we can blame on George W. Bush


4 posted on 07/02/2014 6:42:19 PM PDT by Maine Mariner
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To: All

Hope they are not loading the bodies onto MAL 370....


5 posted on 07/02/2014 6:43:55 PM PDT by CharlotteVRWC
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To: dynachrome

Hmm, did they let the virus loose in order for the US to write them a check?


6 posted on 07/02/2014 6:48:52 PM PDT by bgill
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To: dynachrome

One positive note even amongst something so tragic.

Obama couldn’t arrange to have them placed on top of railway cars and offloaded on to our side of the border.


7 posted on 07/02/2014 6:51:27 PM PDT by DoughtyOne
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To: dynachrome

nukem from orbit


8 posted on 07/02/2014 6:52:44 PM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: oldbrowser

Oh, my. Where did you say you got your shot for that?


9 posted on 07/02/2014 6:54:29 PM PDT by Libloather (Embrace the suck)
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To: Maine Mariner
One died from Mad cow disease and Bush took all the heat for it from every MSM
outlet on the planet. 400+ from Ebola? Bah, no big deal.
10 posted on 07/02/2014 6:55:48 PM PDT by MaxMax (Pay Attention and you'll be pissed off too! FIRE BOEHNER, NOW!)
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To: ClearCase_guy

I firmly agree with you and Farrar. Holding these drugs back is cruel and show an incredible level of unnecessary protections for the drug industry. If it’s not going to work, how better to find out.


11 posted on 07/02/2014 6:56:26 PM PDT by JimSEA
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To: MaxMax

Yes I remember that now.


12 posted on 07/02/2014 6:56:32 PM PDT by Maine Mariner
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To: Maine Mariner
This is beyond epidemic, this just may be the beginning of the population reduction.
It will not start here, but it will end here.
13 posted on 07/02/2014 7:02:16 PM PDT by MaxMax (Pay Attention and you'll be pissed off too! FIRE BOEHNER, NOW!)
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To: dynachrome

Perhaps a Malthusian wringer.


14 posted on 07/02/2014 7:05:47 PM PDT by headsonpikes (Mass murder and cannibalism are the twin sacraments of socialism - "Who-whom?"-Lenin)
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To: dynachrome; neverdem; ProtectOurFreedom; Mother Abigail; EBH; vetvetdoug; Smokin' Joe; ...
Bring Out Your Dead

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.

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...

15 posted on 07/02/2014 7:23:08 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: JimSEA

Until you can guarantee immunity from liability, I do not blame the pharmas one iota!


16 posted on 07/02/2014 7:28:49 PM PDT by SgtHooper (This is not my tag!)
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To: dynachrome; Kartographer; null and void

If the airports in these countries are still open, THEY’RE NOT DOING IT RIGHT!


17 posted on 07/02/2014 7:31:07 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Border Crisis = Cloward-Piven, Chicano-style!)
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To: dynachrome
Coming soon, via a DHS chartered flight from the Mexican border, to every state in the USA!
18 posted on 07/02/2014 7:45:44 PM PDT by sarasmom (Extortion 17. A large number of Navy SEALs died on that mission. Ask why.)
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To: DoughtyOne
You error in underestimating the POTUS.
19 posted on 07/02/2014 7:48:41 PM PDT by sarasmom (Extortion 17. A large number of Navy SEALs died on that mission. Ask why.)
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To: sarasmom

LOL, caught me...


20 posted on 07/02/2014 8:01:07 PM PDT by DoughtyOne
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