I can imagine how thrilled the troops and their families were to find they would be put into that hell over there, all to clear people out to make it easier to extract vital resources like oil and gold, plus hand$omely profit the pharmaceuticals in the interim:
"Obama issues Ebola challenge; Asks that nations step up response to the epidemic" by Helene Cooper | New York Times September 17, 2014
ATLANTA — President Obama challenged world powers on Tuesday to step up the global response to the Ebola outbreak ravaging three West African countries, warning that unless health care workers, medical equipment, and treatment centers are deployed quickly, the disease could take hundreds of thousands of lives.
“This epidemic is going to get worse before it gets better,” Obama said at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, where he met with doctors who had just returned from West Africa. But “right now, the world still has the opportunity to save lives.”
As he signs another drone strike order. What a sphincter.
He said “the world is looking” to the United States to lead the fight against Ebola. “This is a responsibility that we embrace,” he said. But he called on other nations to respond as well.
Maybe it would have been nice had the U.S. not loosed it.
(The good doctor and paper have since been attacked by the propaganda pre$$ as well as controlled opposition blogs, which is about as close to confirmation of truth as you can get)
The US response includes deployment of some 3,000 US military personnel, including doctors, to Liberia and Senegal to wage war on a virus that so far has outstripped meager efforts to contain it.
First a war on terror, and now on a virus?
When all you have is a hammer.... SIGH!
The Pentagon is to build 17 treatment centers of 100 beds each in Liberia, the country hardest hit so far in the epidemic, with five of them in the capital, Monrovia, the first large city to have an outbreak of Ebola.
Why did they build the weapons labs to infect them then?
Administration officials said they urgently needed strong responses from Britain and France, two countries that have colonial ties to the three hardest-hit African countries. Liberia was colonized by freed US slaves beginning in 1822; the British colonized Sierra Leone, and the French have longtime ties to Guinea.
A French official said that France on Sunday sent an additional $13 million to Guinea for 2 tons of medical equipment and the construction of medical centers. The French also sent 24 doctors to Senegal and Ivory Coast.
Related: France's Socialists detail hefty spending cuts
The French must be immune to Ebola.
British troops, the United Kingdom government said last week, are headed to Sierra Leone to build and staff a 63-bed facility near the capital, Freetown.
Well, the economy is in good shape now so it's back to building the New World Order.
On Tuesday in Geneva, senior United Nations officials said cases of the disease were rising at an almost exponential rate, with the number of reported cases climbing to 4,985, including 2,461 deaths. Half of the infections, according to Bruce Aylward, an assistant director-general of the World Health Organization, occurred in the past 21 days, underscoring the acceleration of the outbreak.
“We don’t know where the numbers are going with this,” Aylward said at a news conference in Geneva.
He warned that the rapid spread of the disease “is going to require a much faster escalation of the response if we are to beat the escalation of the virus.”
Just how fast the US military can build the treatment centers in Monrovia is still in question. Liberian officials say that 1,000 beds are needed in Liberia in the next week alone to contain the disease.
But US military officials cautioned that it would take time — perhaps as much as two weeks — before personnel arrive to begin setting up the first treatment centers.
This article was over two weeks ago and I have seen nothing since.
The promise of a ramped-up US response “could change the trajectory of the spread of the disease — if that response is fast,” said Steven Radelet, a former development specialist at both the Treasury and State departments in the Clinton and Obama administrations who now advises the Liberian government on economic matters. “But the question is, how fast can they turn this to action?”
Of the coverage at least. Odd him being over there as the U.S. was letting this thing loose.
Josh Earnest, the White House press secretary, said that the military was setting up a staging base in Senegal, where no one has contracted Ebola at this point. A large contingent of US military personnel will be there; most of the rest will be in Liberia to provide logistics, training, and construction support, but not to direct patient care.
Before leaving the White House for Atlanta on Tuesday morning, Obama met with Dr. Kent Brantly, the US physician with Samaritan’s Purse who contracted Ebola when he was treating patients in Liberia.
In Liberia, half a year after the start of the outbreak, officials remain incapable of carrying out the most basic steps needed to stop the spread of Ebola, including picking up the dead and isolating potentially infectious people.
Because of a shortage of ambulances, families with visibly sick relatives take taxis to overcrowded treatment centers, where they are often turned away.
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"US donating $75m to combat Ebola" by Jonathan Paye-Layleh and Sarah DiLorenzo | Associated Press September 05, 2014
MONROVIA, Liberia — The US Agency for International Development announced Thursday it will donate $75 million to fund 1,000 more beds in Ebola treatment centers in Liberia and buy 130,000 more protective suits for health care workers.
AID = CIA, and I'm sure austerity-laden Americans are going to love seeing more money going overseas for whatever reason.
West Africa’s struggling health systems have buckled under the pressure of an Ebola outbreak that has already killed about 1,900 people.
So will AmeriKa's.
Nurses in Liberia are wearing rags over their heads to protect themselves from the dreaded disease, amid concerns that shortages of protective gear throughout the region are responsible for the high Ebola death toll among health workers.
The agency also urged American health care workers to respond to the outbreak.
Rajiv Shah, the agency’s administrator, said that several hundred more international specialists are needed and the agency will help send American health care workers there.
The $75 million comes in addition to about $20 million the agency has already donated to fight the outbreak.
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"Gates Foundation to spend $50m on Ebola response" Associated Press September 11, 2014
SEATTLE — The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced Wednesday that it will spend $50 million — on top of $10 million already committed — to support emergency response to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, marking the group’s largest donation to a humanitarian effort.
Yeah, about that:
Bill and Melinda Gates, George Soros funded Sierra Leone lab that started Ebola outbreak
Gates not the good globalist as portrayed by the 1% papers, folks. Sorry.
No less than Liberia's version of the New York Times agrees.
‘‘It became clear to us over the last 7 to 10 days that the pace and scope of the epidemic was increasing significantly,’’ Chris Elias, president of global development for the world’s largest charitable foundation, said.
The Seattle-based foundation said the money will go to the United Nations, the World Health Organization, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and international organizations involved in fighting transmission of the virus.
The usual agenda-pushing suspects.
The money will be used to purchase supplies and to develop vaccines, therapies, and better diagnostic tools.
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Gates is in on the EndGame, as are all the elite:
"Liberia president praises US for Ebola help pledge" by Jonathan Paye-Layleh and Maria Cheng | Associated Press September 18, 2014
MONROVIA, Liberia — People critically ill with Ebola languishing in an ambulance for hours. Treatment centers filling up as soon as they open. The situation is so dire in Liberia that its president welcomed a US pledge to send troops and treatment centers, but said much more needs to be done.
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf on Wednesday urged the world to redouble efforts to battle the disease, which could spread after already hitting five West African nations.
‘‘Our American partners realize Liberia cannot defeat Ebola alone,’’ Sirleaf said in a written statement. ‘‘We hope this decision by the United States will spur the rest of the international community into action. . . . The entire community of nations has a stake in ending this crisis.’’
Even as promises of aid came, the risks were underscored as yet another international health care worker fell ill while trying to help patients in Liberia. Doctors Without Borders said the female French employee would be evacuated to France after being placed into isolation on Tuesday. It was the first time one of the group’s international workers has contracted Ebola. Six local staff have been infected, three of whom died, though it was not clear that they had become sick at work and may have gotten the virus where they lived.
More than 300 health workers have been infected with Ebola in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. Nearly half of them have died. At least seven international health care and aid workers have been taken abroad for treatment.
The World Health Organization says 1,500 international health workers are needed.
President Obama said Tuesday that he will order 3,000 US military personnel to West Africa. The United States is also planning to deliver 17 treatment centers with 100 beds each to Liberia.
Ebola is believed to have killed at least 2,400 people in the largest outbreak ever and sickened nearly 5,000.
I'm not saying it is unimportant, but other things kill far more people and no one is making much of a fuss.
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"Sierra Leone adds more quarantines to limit Ebola" by Adam Nossiter | New York Times September 26, 2014
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone — In what appeared to be an acknowledgment that official statistics had been misleading, the government said the country’s plight was “worse than what was being reflected in reports,” and there was a “need to step up our response.”
Is there a government out there anywhere that tells the truth?
A Western diplomat called Koroma’s restrictive order, coming after a three-day national lockdown that required every citizen to stay inside, “a mitigating measure reacting to a worsening situation.”
See: Sierra Leone Slum Locked Down Over Ebola
Didn't really end, did it?
The government set up official corridors for traveling through quarantined areas, and movement through them is restricted to the hours between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. Passengers were told to not leave their vehicles. And for infected chiefdoms — traditional administrative units — within quarantined districts, Koroma took the extraordinary step of warning citizens to not “travel to any other chiefdom until further notice.”
President Obama delivered a blunt warning Thursday at a high-level United Nations meeting devoted to the health crisis: The world was doing too little and moving too slowly.
Obama cited his announcement last week that the Pentagon will build a field hospital and treatment units in Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra Leone as positive steps. “But I want us to be clear: We are not moving fast enough. We are not doing enough,” the president said.
And here you let it into this country, too!
Obama called on countries to supply air transportation and medical evacuation services, as well as doctors and medical equipment. The United States, he said, could build a network of treatment centers but did not have enough doctors to contain the outbreak.
The initial US response came under criticism for being slow-footed and inadequate. But after visiting the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta last week, where he announced a new military command in Liberia with about 3,000 doctors and other personnel, and plans to build 17 Ebola treatment centers, Obama felt emboldened to prod others to do more.
Yeah, he's a real hero.
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Related: Ebola outbreak begs the question: Are cities hazardous to health?
I know one capital city of a certain home state I avoid like the plague.
Also see: Containing Ebola: Better late than never
Except it still is not being contained in a most clumsy way.
