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2014-09-27 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Sierra Leone Quarantines More Than One Million People

Sierra Leone has ordered the quarantine "with immediate effect" of three districts and 12 tribal chiefdoms -- affecting more than one million people -- in the largest lockdown in west Africa's deadly Ebola outbreak. President Ernest Bai Koroma, in a national televised address late Wednesday, announced that the northern districts of Port Loko and Bombali were to be closed off along with the southern district of Moyamba -- effectively sealing off around 1.2 million people. With the eastern districts of Kenema and Kailahun already under quarantine, more than a third of the population, in five of the nation's 14 districts, now finds itself unable to move freely.

"The isolation of districts and chiefdoms will definitely pose great difficulty but the lives of everyone and the survival of our country takes precedence over these difficulties," Koroma said. "These are trying moments for everyone in the country."

Cuba Sends 300 More Doctors, Nurses to Fight Ebola

Cuba said it will send nearly 300 more doctors and nurses to west Africa to help fight the Ebola epidemic. This will raise to 461 the number of Cuban medical personnel that the country will send to battle the disease. The Cubans will work in Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia, said Regla Angulo, head of the Cuban medical relief agency.

Posted by trailing wife 2014-09-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11140 views ] Top

#1 Two new-ish items:

Dr. Joanne Liu, head of Doctors without Borders (which has far more first-hand knowledge about this epidemic than WHO or CDC), says the reported figures vastly underestimate the number of infections: "we have only 20% visibility of the number of cases."

So, multiply the official numbers by 5.

Also, new data suggests the mortality rate is not 55%, but more like 70%.

Posted by RandomJD 2014-09-27 18:26|| 2014-09-27 18:26|| Front Page Top

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