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To: Raebie

“In a statement, the WHO said that motorbike-taxis and regular taxis are “a hot source of potential virus transmission” in Liberia where conventional Ebola control interventions “are not having an adequate impact”.”

I’m sure it won’t be a problem here if it gets in the public transportation system. After all, we don’t have sex with dead bodies or anything like that /s.


10 posted on 09/08/2014 9:56:07 AM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: Black Agnes

I don’t think anyone thinks they have sexual contact with the corpses, but many reports have used phrases that referred to traditional practices that involve contact with the body.

Have searched to no avail to find out if this means that a few relatives are involved in the cleanup of the body or if they mean that everyone at the wake is expected to embrace the corpse.

I suspect that it is the former, as I remember reading that the situation is made worse because the relatives then prepare food for the grieving visitors, which helps to spread the virus.


37 posted on 09/09/2014 7:15:26 AM PDT by Bigg Red (31 May 2014: Obamugabe officially declares the USA a vanquished subject of the Global Caliphate.)
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