Ebola and other Epidemics, Inadequate Healthcare Threatens Millions

[alfred russel]

So speaking of which, today Polish media are talking about a Catholic-priest-led group of Polish high school humanitarian volunteers who just came back from Liberia. Noone would have noticed if one of the bunch didn't post on Facebook that he wonders if he should be worried.

When, in few years, we discuss how Europe fell to Ebola, you will know where it started.

Humanitarianism. I always knew that was the weak spot that would lead to the collapse of our society.   

[jimmy olsen]

http://saharareporters.com/2014/08/14/president-jonathan-sacks-16000-nigerian-resident-doctors

Nigeria fired all its doctors, I'm sure thay won't harm the effort to  keep out Ebolanat all.

[garbon]

I guess one shouldn't try and use an epidemic as leverage.

[jimmy olsen]

WHO says that the "number of reported  cases and deaths vastly underestimate the magnitude of the outbreak."

http://www.who.int/csr/disease/ebola/overview-20140814/en/

MSF predicts the outbreak will take at least six months to get under control.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-28807281

[Martinus]

I guess one shouldn't try and use an epidemic as leverage.

And here you go again applying first world morality to third world problems.

[garbon]

I guess one shouldn't try and use an epidemic as leverage.

And here you go again applying first world morality to third world problems.

Well it looks like Nigeria took a first world solution - fire their asses.

Besides, I've no interest in a morality that calls for strikes while people are dying.

[Liep]

They're not making it easier for themselves.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/report-armed-men-attack-liberia-ebola-clinic-freeing-patients/

[LaCroix]

have these countries had serious and widely publicized epidemics like this before (in semi-recent years), with this sort of reaction? a silver lining five to ten years down the road might be that this could hurt the credibility of the voodoo practitioners/naysayers in those countries.

[Liep]

White people in white plastic suits bringing death to the village, nah, not going to hurt the voodoo douches.

[alfred russel]

White people in white plastic suits bringing death to the village, nah, not going to hurt the voodoo douches.

The voodoo guys have been failing to cure anything for centuries. I don't see why failing to cure sick people should suddenly now discredit them.

[LaCroix]

The voodoo guys have been failing to cure anything for centuries. I don't see why failing to cure sick people should suddenly now discredit them.

not in that sense. in the "god, people reacted that way?" sense sometime down the line. some are never going to believe it was ebola, but a major catastrophe with this sort of reaction is a good way to make people realize how crazy some of these beliefs are.

[CountDeMoney]

White people in white plastic suits bringing death to the village, nah, not going to hurt the voodoo douches.

The voodoo guys have been failing to cure anything for centuries. I don't see why failing to cure sick people should suddenly now discredit them.

They have more street cred with the unwashed than a bunch of guys showing up in 2001: A Space Odyssey suits.

[jimmy olsen]

They're not making it easier for themselves.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/report-armed-men-attack-liberia-ebola-clinic-freeing-patients/

The bolded calls for the most appropriate use of this emoticon ever

http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/08/17/ebola-patients-flee-quarantine-centre-in-liberia-as-local-mob-on-looting-spree-steals-bloody-sheets-mattresses/

Ebola patients flee quarantine centre in Liberia as local mob on 'looting spree' steals bloody sheets, mattresses

[Eddie Teach]

They're not making it easier for themselves.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/report-armed-men-attack-liberia-ebola-clinic-freeing-patients/

The bolded calls for the most appropriate use of this emoticon ever

http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/08/17/ebola-patients-flee-quarantine-centre-in-liberia-as-local-mob-on-looting-spree-steals-bloody-sheets-mattresses/

Ebola patients flee quarantine centre in Liberia as local mob on 'looting spree' steals bloody sheets, mattresses

Not quite as apt as the uses discussing a certain television duel.

Now if there was a half , half smilie, that would fit perfectly.

[alfred russel]

I'm not an epidemiologist, but there might be reasons communicable disease outbreaks so commonly occur in Africa.