Posted on 08/15/2014 8:42:14 AM PDT by Covenantor
The medical charity MSF has warned that western Africa's Ebola crisis is "moving faster" than medics can cope with. Its warning follows a WHO admission that the epidemic requires "extraordinary measures." The head of Medicins Sans Frontieres (MSF), Joanne Liu -- fresh from a visit to western Africa -- said in Geneva on Friday that more experts were needed in the hard-hit region.
"It is deteriorating faster, and moving faster, than we can respond to," Liu told reporters. "Like in a war time, we have a total collapse of infrastructure," she added.
Lui said the world community needed to get the "upper hand" over the next six months. While the viral spread had been slowed in Guinea, concerns focused especially on Liberia.
"If we don't stabilize Liberia, we will never stabilize the region," Lui said.
She was critical of the WHO for delaying its public health emergency warning until August 8. "We need people with a hands-on operational mindset," to combat the outbreak, Liu told the Geneva news briefing.
Kind of says it all.
Plague ping
And yet WHO’s Margaret Chan (who’s from HK), assures us that the risk of it traveling via airline is miniscule.
Not that China has an interest in depopulating Africa or anything...
Is it time to worry yet? Although I’m surprised we haven’t seen large numbers outside of Africa so far.
I was never a Roger Daltrey fan either.
Close the airports while we figure it out.
Time for that 4 month Arctic cruise (Last Ship)....
What?
Will never happen.
PTB’s have determined it’s to their advantage to spread it.
Or have determined that they will remain safe from it and the economic downside for them outweighs any downside to the peasants.
Well, let me break out my Tamiflu.
Seems like a good time to start screaming about bird flu again.
Pamdemic! Pandemic! Pandemic!
Yep, and somebody soon will figure out how to weaponize it. At least the plague was a bacterial infection, and can be treated with antibiotics. This one, god help us if it runs rampant, because nobody on earth will be able to.
To be truthful, the countries that are experiencing the outbreaks had little infrastructure to begin with.
Fixed it.
You'd think that would be the first extraordinary measure taken.
Meanwhile, apparently no restrictions on flights from infected areas, and CERTAINLY no border controls. A pandemic is just the thing that king 0bama has been looking for to declare martial law and complete his coup d'etat.
Yeah, I gotta agree with Liu, those 2 albums with Kenny Jones replacing the deceased Keith Moon were pretty bad.
Let me know when it reaches the levels of just regular flu.
Over a period of 30 years, between 1976 and 2006, estimates of flu-associated deaths in the United States range from a low of about 3,000 to a high of about 49,000 people.
http://www.cdc.gov/flu/keyfacts.htm
Way past time to worry.
With a hypo of infected blood and 50 people willing to die...
If I could figure it out, ISIS could.
They wouldn’t even be blamed as it couldn’t be traced back to them.
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