[Breitbart] Doctors Without Borders revealed on Tuesday that nine of its staff members who had risked their lives fighting Ebola in West Africa have died. The fate of 16 other of their staff, who they said have also been infected, has yet to be determined as the battle to thwart the spread of the deadly disease wares on.
The deaths reveal that even at well-quipped and properly staffed treatment centers the risk of infection is high, according to the Associated Press. Despite international efforts in the form of financial aid, the mobilization of troops, and volunteer clinicians from a host of organizations, Doctors Without Borders said it simply is not enough. Who could have imagined something coming along that would be more injurious to the medical profession than Obamacare.
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What is the time period for these doctors' deaths?
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Three were August 21-24th. Four years ago a test was conducted. Hogs in a pen were infected with Ebola. A separate cage in the same room had monkeys in it. Within four days the monkeys were Ebola victims. I believe we are dealing with different things. Some bacterial and some viral. Even different infections. They I believe throw everything in under one label.
The World Health Organisation botched early efforts to halt the deadly Ebola virus in West Africa, according to a drafted internal report leaked late yesterday night. would have been relatively easy to isolate a few African villages. And why didn't they?
"It's the regional office in Africa that's the front line," said Dr Peter Piot, the co-discoverer of the Ebola virus, interviewed by AP at his office in London.
"And they didn't do anything. That office is really not competent," he claimed said.
The report also found that the heads of its country offices in Africa are "politically motivated appointments" made by the WHO regional director for Africa, Dr Luis Sambo, who does not answer to Dr Margaret Chan, the agency’s chief in Geneva.
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Assigning blame, however accurate, leads to a rather shallow analysis. Lets drill a bit deeper.
If you are having difficulty [as do some], understanding the underlying causes of African poverty, corruption, tribalism, illness, and misery in general, think of a cluster of nations all led by individual Congressional Black Caucuses. You'll not be far off.
Our tiny experiment in democracy is some 300 years old. Thank you Christopher Columbus, Vikings, Prisoners of Mother England, oppressed Europeans, hard working Amigos, and enterprising Asians. Africa on the other hand, has had by some estimates, a 40,000 head start on us.
In those accumulated 40,000 years on the Continent of Africa, experiments such as our have come and gone, most failing miserably, or in the process of failing miserably. Causative realities may go a bit deeper than climate and resources. I'll leave it at that.
[Ynet] The Canadian government said that it will start shipping its experimental Ebola vaccine to the World Health Organization on Monday for possible use in the West African countries hardest hit by the outbreak.
The government said in a news release Saturday that the Public Health Agency of Canada is supplying the vaccine to the UN agency in Geneva. The WHO is the international coordinating body for battling the Ebola outbreak which has killed more than 4,500 people in West Africa.
[DAWN] KARACHI: A teenager with Congo-Crimean haemorrhagic fever (CCHF) has been under treatment at the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JMPC) for the past three days, officials said on Monday.
The 19-year-old boy is a resident of Korangi and worked temporarily as a butcher during the Eidul Azha holidays.
The JPMC officials said the victim was a full-time worker in a Korangi factory producing shopping bags.
"He was admitted to the hospital with internal bleeding with a history of fever and fits on Tuesday," said Dr Seemin Jamali, joint executive director of the JPMC, while speaking to Dawn.
"We suspected that he was infected with dengue and CCHF and tested him for both while admitting him to the intensive care unit. He was confirmed to have contracted CCHF on Thursday," she added.
She said the young man's condition was critical and hospital doctors had taken precautionary measures to check with his relatives.
He was the second CCHF case admitted to the JPMC.
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worked temporarily as a butcher during the Eidul Azha holidays Congo-Crimean Bush Meat haemorrhagic fever.
Is it killed in the cooking?
[Iran Press TV] The World Health Organization (WHO) says the outbreak of the deadly Ebola disease has ended in Senegal ... a nation of about 14 million on the west coast of Africa bordering Mauretania to the north, Mali to the east, and a pair of Guineas to the south, one of them Bissau. It is 90 percent Mohammedan and has more than 80 political parties. Its primary purpose seems to be absorbing refugees...
In a statement released on Friday, the WHO said it "commends the country on its diligence to end the transmission of the virus."
The UN health agency hailed Senegal's response to Ebola which "included identifying and monitoring 74 close contacts of the patient, prompt testing of all suspected cases, stepped-up surveillance at the country's many entry points and nationwide public awareness campaigns."
The statement came following the 42-day mark, which is twice the maximum incubation period for the disease, without any new cases since Senegal's single, non-fatal Ebola case on August 29.
The case was confirmed in a young man who had travelled to the Senegalese capital Dakar from Guinea, where he had direct contact with an Ebola patient. His laboratory samples tested negative on September 5, showing that he had recovered from Ebola.
The WHO will also declare Nigeria Ebola free on Monday if no new cases emerge in the country, in which the last case was detected on August 31.
Latest figures issued by the WHO show that 4,555 people have died from Ebola out of a total of 9,216 suspected and confirmed cases, as of October 14.
The health agency has admitted to failure in anticipating the current scope of the Ebola outbreak and falling short of giving a quick and appropriate response.
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Well, if Senegal and Nigeria can do it, Shirley the Smartest Man in the Room can assign a political crony to the task and get it done.
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You are assuming, of course, that the third smartest man in an empty room wants to solve it. That is not necessarily the case as his actions so far seems to indicate.
Don't let a crisis go to waste and all that...
Reported tat the 101st contingent being sent to Africa will NOT get any protection from Ebola beyond gloves and N95 style masks.
Hell, I use more when I fire up the air compressor to paint a car.....
[Iran Press TV] Approximately two dozen people, mostly women and kiddies, have been killed in an attack by Ugandan rebels in the volatile east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...formerly the Congo Free State, Belgian Congo, Zaire, and who knows what else, not to be confused with the Brazzaville Congo aka Republic of Congo, which is much smaller and much more (for Africa) stable. DRC gave the world Patrice Lumumba and Joseph Mobutu, followed by years of tedious civil war. Its principle industry seems to be the production of corpses. With a population of about 74 million it has lots of raw material... , an official says.
Ugandan rebels used machetes, axes and hoes to hack and club nearly 22 people to death in the town of Eringeti near Beni on Friday night, Governor of North Kivu Province Julien Paluku confirmed.
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[LA Times] Militia commander Yuri Bereza and his 150 Ukrainian irregulars were closing in on pro-Moscow separatists in their last stronghold in this eastern city when Russian troops and armor thundered in out of nowhere to cut them off in the suburb of Ilovaisk..
No satellite or drone surveillance detected the sudden movement of the Russian columns. No word of the impending attack had been radioed from the border guard base the invaders had to have passed. Neither did any of the allied soldiers who were supposed to be bringing up the rear inform Bereza's fighters that they had been cut off. In fact, the 700-strong contingent of government recruits had deserted en masse. Yet another missed surveillance opportunity by the Champ regime.
[SACBEE] Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, continues to have ‐ by far ‐ the nation's highest level of poverty under an alternative method devised by the Census Bureau that takes into account both broader measures of income and the cost of living.
Nearly a quarter of the state's 38 million residents (8.9 million) live in poverty, a new Census Bureau report says, a level virtually unchanged since the agency first began reporting on the method's effects.
Under the traditional method of gauging poverty, adopted a half-century ago, California's rate is 16 percent (6.1 million residents), somewhat above the national rate of 14.9 percent but by no means the highest. That dubious honor goes to New Mexico at 21.5 percent.
But under the alternative method, California rises to the top at 23.4 percent while New Mexico drops to 16 percent and other states decline to as low as 8.7 percent in Iowa.
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Democrats need poor people to harvest votes. SO they implement policies that create lots of them, including open borders, and killing businesses and jobs.
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Let me pull a leftist trick. It is not poverty that live in; it is GIVERnment assitited lifestyle. Poverty invokes images of starvation, dirt floors, lack of necessities, lack of hope... That does not exist so let us change the definition of poverty to mean something else.
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I like that. Since the so-called 'poor' here would be considered 'middle class' or even 'well-to-do' practically anywhere else on the planet.
But change it to givernment DEPENDENT lifestyle. It doesn't really assist them - just makes them dependent on the givernment drug.
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But under the alternative method, California rises to the top at 23.4 percent while New Mexico drops to 16 percent and other states decline to as low as 8.7 percent in Iowa.
If you take out all the natives living on FEDERAL managed and controlled lands, the reservations, from the NM count, it's level of poverty drops even lower.
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Airandee is correct. I wish that some of these government bozos could visit some countries and see REAL poverty. I have seen people living in corrugated metal shacks next to an open sewer. And that is in Bangalore, India - the Silicon Valley of India.
In America, "poor" people complain because they can only get a few hundred channels on their flat screen TVs. In really poor countries, they wonder what this "electricity" thing you speak of is. And "food".
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If you have $3,650, you’re among the wealthiest half of people in the world - bookmark for future reference when people start using the term 'income inequity'. Talk about how high the bottom is compared to other countries (as in why Central Americans are swarming the southern border and Clinton era Haitian exodus). There's real inequity created by, ready for it, corruption.
[DAWN] GUJAR KHAN: Three alleged proclaimed offenders were killed in an encounter with police on Friday on G.T. Road near Sohawa while they were on the run after snatching a van from Dina town.
Mr Sarfraz Virk ,the district police officer (DPO), Jhelum talking to mediapersons claimed they were wanted in various criminal cases.
The DPO said Shahid Ahmed, a resident of Chak Daria, informed the police early on Friday morning that four gunnies snatched Rs7,000, cellphone and a van from him near Dheri Batali.
The DPO said the police picketing at Sohawa toll plaza and Jhelum CIA staff immediately started chasing the alleged outlaws who opened fire on the police, who returned fire, killing three of them while fourth escaped.
The bodies of the alleged robbers were brought to the cop shoppe Sohawa for identification by the public and later shifted to DHQ hispital Jhelum for an appointment with Dr. Quincy.
Accordingto DSP Raja Tahir Bashir, two of the killed outlaws were identified as Ehsanul Haq and Mohammad Ehtishaam.
He claimed that the police record confirmed that they were wanted in various murders, armed robberies and extortion cases registered in Gujar Khan, Sohawa, Domeli, Mandra, Dhudial (Chakwal), Dina and other cop shoppes.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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The World Health Organisation botched early efforts to halt the deadly Ebola virus in West Africa, according to a drafted internal report leaked late yesterday night.
[DAWN] KARACHI: A teenager with Congo-Crimean haemorrhagic fever (CCHF) has been under treatment at the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JMPC) for the past three days, officials said on Monday.
[Iran Press TV] The World Health Organization (WHO) says the outbreak of the deadly Ebola disease has ended in 
[Iran Press TV] Approximately two dozen people, mostly 
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