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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Unburied Bodies Show Ebola-Hit Areas' Transportation Woes

2014-08-31

[BLOOMBERG] Burials of people who have died of Ebola are taking as long as five days in Liberia as a shortage of ambulances and fuel compound the fear and isolation that are stoking the worst outbreak of the virus on record.

A lack of vehicles and a fuel shortage are also hampering the ability of the World Health Organization and its allies to reach affected communities and investigate new cases, said Rick Brennan, director of the WHO's department of emergency risk management and humanitarian response.

"Getting those activities running in the counties requires a lot of vehicles and fuel, and both of those are in short supply," Brennan said by phone from Monrovia, the capital of Liberia, which has the highest corpse count in the current outbreak at 694. "The roads here really beat up the vehicles, so they don't have a long shelf-life."

Posted by:Fred

#2 A scary Ebola epidemic is a perfect talking point for demanding an increase in the WHO budget. Nipping such an epidemic in the bud is so obviously unhelpful to that point that we cannot expect WHO to attempt to do such nipping. You should not be surprised that it did nothing.
Did you really expect that WHO would take time off from its busy schedule of issuing bonus awards to its officers and scheduling celebratory parties, to prevent this crisis and the bonanza for the WHO it portends?

Posted by: djk 2014-08-31 22:27

#1 so refreshing to see the WHO quoted... with a budget of $4.27 billion the WHO have now watched as ebola spread from a few Guinean villagers in February to infect six african countries and thousands of people.

thank you, WHO for not bothering to stomp on ebola back in February

and for never issuing a travel restriction advice as the virus grew and spread to the cities and towns and then started catching planes

Posted by: anon1 2014-08-31 10:55

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