Fear, cash shortages hinder fight against Ebola outbreak

Reuters ^ | 7-2-14 | KWASI KPODO

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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."

[bigredkitty1]

Just received my copy of Richard Preston’s “The Hot Zone”. I will finish reading it this time. Tried reading it in 1994 but it scared me so much, I put it down and never went back. The descriptions of the disease and what it does to the human body is truly terrifying.

[P.O.E.]

Tepid sponging?

[Bigg Red]

Yes, I fear you are correct. Progressives’ WWI dreams all over again....

[MaxMax]

WW1 IMO was started from ego's clashing and one upsmanship from the leaders.
What a complete and utterly evil waste of human life. It was the same
type of people who are now wanting a population reduction, and they are
placing themselves in power positions to achieve that goal. They are both the same
and most Libs in denial are culprits in bringing another war like that into our world.

From then the spread of Nationalism, to now, Progressivism. Same thing as old style
Communism of the Soviet Union. AKA, Stalinism-Bolshevism, as they worship both as a religion.

The problems and frustration of bringing WW1 to American shores is our Constitution and pond.
The one very document holding back the tyrants is one damn piece of paper.
Liberals have never wanted a Utopia, it's a smoke screen, a lie to achieve
their totalitarian goal of destroying Freedom. They also believe that
they will be spared.

[Bigg Red]

There were people back then who identified themselves as progressives. And some of them absolutely wanted WWI and believed it was necessary to “cleanse” the world.

Of course, among the men who died needlessly were many brave and valiant men, the flower of American and British manhood.
The vile manipulators calling for conflict were not the ones who suffered in those trenches.

I see the same sort of micreants now shouting from the rooftops for war, but neither they nor their sons nor grandsons will not be the ones who lay down their lives.

If I did not have my religious faith, I would be so despondent right now.