S.Leone Ebola outbreak 'catastrophic': aid group MSF (figures were "under-reported")

Yahoo News ^ | October 31, 2014

[maggief]

Barcelona (AFP) - Ebola has wiped out whole villages in Sierra Leone and may have caused many more deaths than the nearly 5,000 official global toll, a senior coordinator of the medical aid group MSF said Friday.

Rony Zachariah of Doctors Without Borders, known by its French initials MSF, said after visiting Sierra Leone that the Ebola figures were "under-reported", in an interview with AFP on the sidelines of a medical conference in Barcelona.

"The situation is catastrophic. There are several villages and communities that have been basically wiped out. In one of the villages I went to, there were 40 inhabitants and 39 died," he said.

[rolling_stone]

http://news.yahoo.com/us-soldiers-ebola-quarantine-italy-causes-alarm-105351072.html

[LucyT]

No longer a rumor; check out #21.

Thanks, rolling_stone.

[WildHighlander57]

Rolling_stone,

thanks for that confirmation!

LucyT

Thanks for the ping!

All y’all

Prayers UP for those soldiers!

[DJlaysitup]

Sargent Morrow: “OK guys, let’s get this stuff off the pier and into the trucks to be taken where it can do some good”.

Warlord LT Imbuieki: “This is our pier and we demand payment”.

Sgt M: “I would have to talk to your leader, is he closeby?”

LT Imbu: “Yes, here he is, our forces are strong.”

Boom, boom, boom, acka, acka acka....

Sgt M: “OK guys, let’s get this stuff off the pier and into the trucks to be taken where it can do some good”.

Corporal Johnson: “Yep - they’re dead...let’s move.”

[Bigg Red]

They under-reported? I know I am just shocked! /s

[SatinDoll]

The following was reported on another thread. These are cases here in the U.S.A. Talk about under-reported!

As of last night, here is a list of reports of individuals under observation for Ebola by state:

WSJ: Few Ebola Cases found by airport checks (4 minutes ago)

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NationalJournal: Is Your State Quarantining Ebola doctors? (3 hours ago)

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WKRGNews5: Three People in Alabama monitored for Ebola (4 hours ago)

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Fox5: 3 in San Diego being monitored for Ebola symptoms (30 minutes ago)

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DanburyDailyVoice: Connecticut puts nine people under quarantine to monitor for Ebola (10/23/2014)

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DelawareOnline: State monitoring 11 who returned from West Africa (16 hours ago)

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TampaTribune: Florida monitoring nine at ‘low risk’ for Ebola (11 hours ago)

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HawaiiNewsNow: Hawaii to handle Ebola quarantine decisions on case-by-case basis (10/29/2014)

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CBS: Chicago Photojournalist monitored for Ebola after return from Liberia (13 hours ago)

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NewsMax: Ebola in Indiana? No, but 6 Travelers from WAfrica are being monitored (12 hours ago)

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ArkLaTex: health officials monitor Louisiana man for Ebola (10/25/2014)

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King5: Ebola nurse says she’ll fight Maine quarantine authority (11 minutes ago)

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Patch: Two Montgomery County residents being monitored for Ebola MD (5 hours ago)

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DetroitFreePress: Michigan officials take 1 person off Ebola watch list Nine people in MI were being monitored,(now eight) (4 hours ago)

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KSTP: Minnesota Health officials monitor 1 person for Ebola, fine-tune prevention plan (10/28/2014)

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NJonline: 100 NJ residents with no Ebola symptoms monitored at home, state says (21 minutes ago)

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ABC: New York City monitoring 117 people for Ebola (5 hours ago)

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WSOCTV: Meck Co. (Charlotte, NC) monitors people after traveling from Ebola hot zone (10/28/2014) (multiple people)

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KRMG: Tulsa County Health Dept. monitoring traveler from West Africa for Ebola (44 minutes ago)

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KGW8: Second person being monitored for Ebola in Mult. Co. (Oregon) (10/28/2014)

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105 being monitored for Ebola in Pa. (10/28/2014)

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ArgusLeader: Ebola: South Dakota monitoring low-risk traveler from West Africa (10/27/2014)

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Local8Now: Knox Co. Health Department monitors traveler from west AFrica East Tennessee (10/28/2014)

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MyFoxDFW: 85 people in North Texas still being monitored for Ebola (8 hours ago)

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SaltLakeTribune: Health departments monitoring two Utahns for Ebola symptoms (3 hours ago)

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BenningtonBanner: Rutland (VT) man being monitored for ebola is identified (7 hours ago)

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DailyPress: No Ebola in Virginia, health department says (1 hour ago)

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WTMJ: Milwaukee Health Dept. monitoring travelers from West Africa for Ebola (few people) (10/22/2014)

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WSJ: Few Ebola Cases found by airport checks (4 minutes ago)

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NationalJournal: Is Your State Quarantining Ebola doctors? (3 hours ago)

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Thank you — wtd.

[PghBaldy]

OUR people are lying, and so are the people in Africa. I looked at the recent WHO report, and in the same week they said Liberia has turned a corner, the report said Liberia did not give figures for most of the week’s tallies.

[Nuc 1.1]

I think your concern is well founded. I do not want our armed forces there though I recognize the need to get a proper fire break in place to stop this outbreak. If Ebola gets to India and/or China it will go around the world. There will be no stopping it. I hope we have contingency plan to stop it at Suez, the Med, the Atlantic, and the Pacific. I do not believe we will be able to stop Ebola on the ground in Aferica. Just my opinion. Hope I am wrong.

[steve86]

Prayers UP for those soldiers!

Why? No one is sick and they're not in danger.

[steve86]

thanks for that confirmation!

Confirmation of what?

[null and void]

Maladies Sans Frontières finally admits there are entire villages wiped off the map.

Bring out your dead! The Dark Man cometh! Bring out your dead! The Dark Man cometh! Bring out your......

(Since all records of obama's past were lost in a tragic boating accident and fire, no one can be certain that the guy in the red circle isn't him...)

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...

[Salvation]

This is like the black plague.

[bgill]

Your link on US troops quarantining in Italy: "it would have been more respectful" of the United States to have "thought about the risks posed to local citizens".

obola doesn't repect anyone and is intent on losing all our friends.

[bgill]

If you don’t give the figures, then your numbers can’t be counted so you’re doing great. Much like obola’s unemployement figures, etc.

[Smokin' Joe]

Ping...

A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread

[redgolum]

Expect this to hit the news after Wednesday

[21twelve]

There was a gal that spoke at our church. Years and years ago she felt called to minister to amputees in Siera Leone from their war(s). She gave both physical and spiritual direction. She became a direct advisor to the President of Siera Leone on the situation with the amputees.

She has been in the states for several months on one of her regular leaves of absences. She received a call from the President to come back sooner, and help with the Ebola crisis. As much as we think think it is “foolish” to go into harm’s way - many do it all the time.

I pray that, with our soldiers and volunteers, that they will be given the training and equipment to do their jobs safely, and that proper waiting times will be observed for their return home.

[Oorang]

Thank for the ping, but, to clarify, that article confirms there are US soldiers in Italy. It does not state they have ebola, thank goodness.

[LucyT]

Tying to catch up, again... check out list at # 26.

Thanks, SatinDoll.

[Joe 6-pack]

'Either it has abruptly ended, or our dear leaders and reporters are lying their asses off!'

Maybe the people keeping the stats are all dead, too.