Posted on 10/09/2014 4:23:07 PM PDT by Prospero
Monrovia - Six U.S. military planes arrived in the Ebola hot zone Thursday with more Marines, as West Africa's leaders pleaded for the world's help in dealing with "a tragedy unforeseen in modern times."
"Our people are dying," Sierra Leone President Ernest Bai Koroma lamented by videoconference at a World Bank meeting in Washington. He said other countries are not responding fast enough while children are orphaned and infected doctors and nurses are lost to the disease.
Alpha Conde of Guinea said the region's countries are in "a very fragile situation."
"This disease is today an international threat and deserves an international response," he said, speaking through a translator.
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Thanks for the ping!
He doesn't care. I am so cynical of him, that I think he would consider their blood on his hands, to be a badge of honor.
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