Liberian President Appeals to Obama for US Help to Beat Ebola

Newsmax.com ^ | September 13, 2014 | Thomson/Reuters

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has appealed to U.S. President Barack Obama for urgent aid in tackling the worst recorded outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus, saying that without it her country would lose the fight against the disease.

The outbreak, which was first discovered in March, has now killed more than 2,400 people mostly in Liberia, neighbouring Guinea and Sierra Leone, as understaffed and poorly resourced West African healthcare systems have been overrun.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that the epidemic is spreading exponentially in Liberia, where more than half of the deaths have been recorded. It has said that thousands are at risk of contagion in the coming weeks.

Medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) has set up several treatment centres in the affected countries but has also repeatedly warned it has reached the limits of its capacity and appealed for foreign governments to intervene.

In a letter dated September 9 seen by Reuters, Johnson Sirleaf appealed to Obama to build and operate at least one Ebola treatment unit in the capital Monrovia, saying that U.S. civilian and military teams had experience in dealing with biological hazards.

With the Liberian government due to open a 100-bed treatment centre and MSF scaling up its Ebola facility in Monrovia to 400 beds, Johnson Sirleaf said there was still a shortfall of 1,000 beds in the capital as well as a need for 10 new centres in the rest of the country.

"Without more direct help from your government, we will lose this battle against Ebola," Johnson Sirleaf, who won the Nobel Peace Prize for her work on women's rights, wrote to Obama.

The U.S. government has committed around $100 million to tackle the outbreak by providing protective equipment for healthcare workers, food, water, medical and hygiene equipment.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

PING!

[FlingWingFlyer]

Fore!!

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Liberian President Appeals to Obama for US Help to Beat Ebola

 

HuH?! They're doomed......

 

 

[eyedigress]

I’ll help them...

STOP HAVING SEX WITH MONKEYS!

[Enterprise]

Send Valerie Jarrett and Marie Harf.

[BenLurkin]

Whatever became of that medicine that was supposed to cure Ebola?

[null and void]

God forbid that I should ever have to depend on obama’s mercy.

[null and void]

Eeeee-bolllll-aaaaaa ping!

Bring Out Your Dead

We’re gonna need

a bigger cart!

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...

[tumblindice]

“Without more direct help from your government (we’re screwed)” as some Liberian hot-rod wrote Obama.

We’ve got quite a few MOABs we could spare: apply liberally and Liberia is no longer a festering swamp of viral death.

[laplata]

Isn’t there an Organization of African States? Let Africa help Africa.

[Ezekiel]

Are these people as good with aid money as say, Haiti?

[VerySadAmerican]

We need to get this disease into the muslim countries before they get it into ours.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Thank you!

[Vince Ferrer]

Whatever became of that medicine that was supposed to cure Ebola?

They used up every dose quickly. It will take months to produce more.

[wjcsux]

Good luck! 0 is not interested.

[Prospero]

She says, in anticipation of Obama expanding American aid to Liberia in the days to come.

(Thus, it will appear to her Liberian constituents that Obama "action" will be in reaction to her appeal.)

[Oldeconomybuyer]

If Liberians could vote in the mid-terms this White Hut would help.

[sten]

no fear. 0bama will take all right leaning members of the armed service and ship them to the deepest part of ebola country

then he’ll leave them there.

he, like all left-tards, have nothing but contempt for the military and anyone that leans right

[wjcsux]

Liberia was founded was founded by Christian freed slaves who wanted to return to Africa after the Civil War. They aren’t Muzzies so they are screwed asking 0bama for help!