Liberia has placed 153 people under surveillance as it seeks to control a new Ebola outbreak in the capital more than two months after the country was declared free of the virus, health officials said.
Three Ebola cases emerged in Liberia on Friday. The first of the new patients was a 15-year-old boy called Nathan Gbotoe from Paynesville, a suburb east of the capital Monrovia. Two other family members have since been confirmed as positive and they are all hospitalized.
"We have three confirmed cases and have listed 153 contacts, and we have labeled them as high, medium and low in terms of the risk," Liberia's Chief Medical Officer Dr. Francis Kateh told Reuters late on Saturday.
The West African country has suffered the highest death toll in the worst known Ebola outbreak in history, losing more than 4,800 people. It has twice been declared Ebola-free by the World Health Organization, once in May and again on Sept. 3, only for new cases to emerge.
It is not known how Gbotoe was infected and Kateh did not offer any explanation, saying that investigations were ongoing. Cross-border transmission seems unlikely since neighboring Guinea has zero cases while Sierra Leone was declared Ebola-free this month after 42 days without a case.
In the Duport Road neighborhood of Paynesville, health officials went from house to house on Saturday delivering food and water to neighbors of the infected family, deemed at risk of catching the disease. Unlike in previous months, there were no barriers or soldiers to enforce quarantines.
The epidemic has crippled Liberia's economy and President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf says it will take two years to recover.
The previous resurgence of Ebola in Liberia is thought to have been via sexual transmission since the virus can exist in the semen of male survivors for at least nine months after infection, much longer than its incubation period in blood.
And much longer than we thought at the time...
It is also theoretically possible for an infected animal to trigger a fresh chain of transmission. The index case in the West African outbreak that has killed around 11,300 people was a child believed to have been infected by a bat.
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It has twice been declared Ebola-free by the World Health Organization, once in May and again on Sept. 3, only for new cases to emerge.
[AlAhram] Authorities on Yemen's Socotra island burnt two tonnes of the mild narcotic drug qat on Saturday, a shipment seized from smugglers trying to defy last week's ban by the archipelago's governor, local officials said.
Yemenis have chewed qat for centuries and although widespread, its use is seen as a social ill by some, sapping productivity and finances.
Non-qat users are aware of this. Users... what? *green dribble*
Sessions begin in the afternoon and can last long into the night.
The national pastime has survived the last few years of turmoil in the impoverished Arab country, including the war that began last year involving air and ground troops from an Arab coalition led by Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... . It is not uncommon to see Yemeni fighters and soldiers with a wad of qat leaves in their cheeks.
But last week the governor of Socotra, a sparsely populated island renowned for its exotic wildlife, sought to stamp out the habit by banning the import or chewing of qat.
According to Yemeni media, Saeed Ba Huqaiba introduced to the ban due to the health risks and financial consequences of qat use.
Local officials said on Saturday they had intercepted and burnt a shipment of two tonnes of qat smuggled from the Hadramout ...the formerly independent Qu'aiti state and sultanate, annexed by Communist South Yemen in 1968, encompassing a region along the Gulf of Aden, extending eastwards to the borders of the Dhofar region of Oman. The people are called Hadhramis and speak Hadhrami Arabic. The city Tarimis is estimated to contain the highest concentration of descendants of the Prophet Muhammad (PTUI) anywhere in the world, approximately seven in every square yard... province on the Yemeni mainland.
Qat is classified by the World Health Organization as a "drug of abuse that can produce mild to moderate psychological dependence". Its physical symptoms can include hallucinations, depression and tooth decay.
Past surveys in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... suggest at least 80 percent of men, about 60 percent of women and increasing numbers of children under 10 - settle down most afternoons to chew.
Bangladesh Ambassador to the USA Mohammad Ziauddin has said Bangladesh has become a brand name in the UN Peace Support Operations.
I'm sure the B-desh peacekeepers indeed have a reputation...
“Till now, 122,000 Bangladeshi troops have served in 54 missions in 25 war-ravaged countries. Of them, 119 valiant soldiers have laid down their lives for the cause of international peace and security,” he told a function in Washington DC.
Referring to the UN peacekeeping missions, the Ambassador said Bangladesh today is the number one troops contributing country to the UN peacekeeping operations with over 9,000 blue helmets in nine missions in nine countries, said a press release received here on Saturday night.
Not for gratis, however...
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These UN PK'ers may be needed back in their homeland soon as the ISIS/ISIL has repor begun operating from Bangla, IIRC formally as the "IS/ISIS in Bangladesh"???
Have threatened the US = White House + NYC, Japan, PH, Canada, and Bangla since Bataclan = Paris + France attacks.
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Sending one's troops overseas reduces their proclivity for coups, looting, raping or pillaging back home. Think of it as a 'jobs program' with foreigners covering the graft.
Goodbye, Bondo-Faced Evita II
Argentines elected pro-market leader Mauricio Macri as their new president on Sunday, early official results showed, breaking with 12 years of leftist rule in Latin America's third-biggest economy.
Partial official results with just over 10 percent of ballots counted gave Macri 54.29 percent of the votes with 45.71 percent for his leftist rival Daniel Scioli, echoing exit polls released earlier.
Confirmed by the BBC: almost all the votes are in now.
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Bambi is letting everyone out. Pelton disclosed the Ivy Bells program, where US spy subs tapped Soviet underwater military communication cables. If you read Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage, this was probably the most successful intel program ever. It took direct presidential authorization to execute each mission, and it directly led to the first SALT treaty. They should have locked him up forever and waterboarded him daily.
[Hurriyet] Greece has done all the reforms in the a first package of measures agreed with eurozone creditors, which paves the way for Athens to get the next tranche of loans, the head of eurozone finance ministers Jeroen Dijsselbloem said on Nov. 21.
With the hunt for ISIS jihadis ongoing and the migrant flows still flowing, now would be a dreadful time for Greece to be forced out of business, as it were,
Greece is getting very cheap loans form the eurozone bailout fund ESM under its third bailout agreement in exchange for putting its public finances in order and reforming the economy to make it more efficient and competitive.
Eurozone deputy finance ministers (EWG) reviewed on Nov. 21 the progress made by Athens in the reforms.
"On the basis of a final compliance notice... the EWG agreed that the Greek authorities have now completed the first set of milestones and the financial sector measures that are essential for a successful recapitalization process," Dijsselbloem said.
"The agreement paves the way for the formal approval by the ESM Board of Directors on Nov. 23 of disbursing the 2 billion euro sub-tranche linked to the first set of milestones," he said.
He said that it will also allow the ESM to make case by case decisions to transfer money to Greece for the recapitalization of the Greek banking sector.
The ESM already has 10 billion euro earmarked for this purpose and the capital needs of Greek banks from the eurozone are estimated at between six and nine billion, one eurozone official said on Nov. 20.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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Liberia has placed 153 people under surveillance as it seeks to control a new Ebola outbreak in the capital more than two months after the country was declared free of the virus, health officials said.
