Hey, it's just black people dying, right?
"Cholera epidemic sweeps West Africa; Hundreds dead in cities’ slums due to bad water" by Adam Nossiter |
New York Times, August 23, 2012
DAKAR, Senegal — A fierce cholera epidemic is spreading through the
coastal slums of West Africa, killing hundreds and sickening many more
in one of the worst regional outbreaks in years, health specialists
said.
I'm wondering which globalist agency released it.
Cholera, transmitted through contact with contaminated feces, was
made worse this year by an exceptionally rainy season that flooded the
sprawling shantytowns in Freetown and Conakry, the capitals of Sierra
Leone and neighboring Guinea.
In both countries, some two-thirds of the population lack toilets and
defecate in the open, a potentially lethal threat in the rainy season
because of the contamination of the water supply. Doctors Without
Borders said there had been nearly twice as many cholera cases so far
this year as there were in the same period in 2007 in Sierra Leone and
Guinea.
Already, about 13,000 people suffering from the disease’s often fatal
symptoms — diarrhea, vomiting, and severe dehydration — have been
treated in those two countries, and 250 to 300 have died, Doctors
Without Borders said.
In Sierra Leone, the government last week declared the cholera
outbreak a national emergency, while aid workers in Guinea said the peak
of the outbreak probably had not been reached. Both countries have been
wracked by years of civil and political unrest, with Sierra Leone still
recovering from a decade of bloody civil war that drove thousands from
rural areas into the city’s slums and Guinea emerging from a
half-century of often brutal dictatorship.
Rains have contributed to cholera deaths in the landlocked nations of Mali and Niger as well, health officials said.
Aid workers said the number of cases of the highly contagious disease
continued to increase, particularly in Freetown, where most live in
slums and children swim in polluted waters. Often, patients arriving at
treatment centers arrive in poor condition — near death, in some cases.
‘‘They come barely conscious because they are severely dehydrated,’’
said Natasha Reyes Ticzon, a cholera field coordinator for Doctors
Without Borders in Freetown. ‘‘We’ve had some deaths because they come
too late. What’s alarming is they get very ill, and very ill fast. The
numbers are still rising, and the rainy season has not ended yet.’’
There have been more than 11,600 cholera cases in Sierra Leone since
January, at least 216 of them fatal, according to the country’s health
minister, Zainab Bangura. In Guinea, there have been 80 deaths out of
2,700 cases so far. More than 1,000 new cases a week are being recorded
in Freetown, health officials said.
In the 14 countries of West and Central Africa there have been 40,799
cholera cases this year, and 846 deaths. More than half originated in
the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Also see: Sunday Globe Special: World's Worst Cholera Crisis
Don't see much about that in my paper, either. If I didn't know better I'd think my Zionist-controlled, agenda-pushing paper is racist.
