Posted on 08/25/2014 1:06:58 PM PDT by Welchie25
Hunger and panic are spreading among people unable to work because of restrictions aimed at containing the spread of Ebola in Liberia and Sierra Leone, say church workers in West Africa.
In Liberia’s capital, Monrovia, church groups “are trying to get food and distribute it to families who have asked us to help, but movement is heavily restricted and there is little we can do,” Salesian Father Jorge Crisafulli, provincial superior in West Africa, said in an Aug. 22 telephone interview from Accra, Ghana.
Neighborhoods in Monrovia have been sealed off under terms of the government-imposed state of emergency.
The World Health Organization has estimated that more than 2,600 people in West Africa have been infected with Ebola since March. More than 1,400 people have died from the virus.
Food prices in Liberia are “rising steeply and people are hungry,” Father Crisafulli said, noting that “markets in the city that are usually bustling are now empty and no trading is happening.”
People are unable to get to work and, “while they still have to buy food, they have no money because they can’t work,” he said.
“There is great fear of spread of disease where there are large groups of people,” he said.
Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea are the countries mainly affected by the current Ebola outbreak.
“Particularly in Liberia, Ebola has become an economic and social problem as well as a health problem,” Father Crisafulli said, noting that “panic and fear are now greater problems than the disease itself.”
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I add my prayers for the people. How excruciating to watch your relatives, including little kids, succumb to this horrible virus, and the fear and starvation it is causing.
You figure theft is just fine if you enjoy the stolen space?
Putting up a billboard on someone else's property is just fine if you like the product advertised?
“Speak English or get back on the boat, homey.”
Actually, Latin arrived on these shores before English.
It’s a good thing the obamazoids haven’t thought of the chaos they could create by changing the national language to Latin.
“How excruciating to watch your relatives, including little kids, succumb to this horrible virus, and the fear and starvation it is causing.”
They’ve had horrible government from antiquity. Now they are reaping the consequences, the innocent with the guilty.
I thought with your perceptive powers as to motive and intent you would immediately get the meaning especially since it is spelled out in my tagline.
reading precedes understanding
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if the shoe fits wear it
AMDG
Yeah, pimping some website at Free Republic’s expense glorifies God real good.
“pimping some website at Free Republic’s expense”
How much?
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