Made me take a day off from blogging.
"Top UN Ebola official: new cases poorly tracked" by Rodney Muhumuza | Associated Press October 29, 2014
KAMPALA, Uganda — As more countries close their borders with or severely restrict travel from the affected countries, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia pleaded Tuesday with the world to not turn its back on those suffering.
‘‘We’d just like the international community to continue to see this as a global threat, that stigmatization, exclusion, restriction is not the appropriate response to this,’’ she said.
She spoke alongside Samantha Power, the US ambassador to the UN, who is also touring the worst-hit countries this week. Power reiterated that the best way to keep Americans safe is to help the West African countries fight the disease.
Just like how we gotta fight the terrorists.
‘‘We’re not just looking to bend the curve, we’re looking to end the curve,’’ she added.
Although Western governments and aid groups have stepped up Ebola aid in recent months, the UN says more support is needed. The UN’s target is to quickly isolate 70 percent of Ebola cases and to achieve a similar percentage for safe Ebola burials.
‘‘They are extremely ambitious [goals], given the geographical spread of the disease, the numbers of people infected, the very poor information on exactly where those infected are, and what the transmission patterns are,’’ said Anthony Banbury said by phone from the Ghanaian capital of Accra, where the UN Mission for Ebola Emergency Response, or UNMEER, is based. ‘‘The three things we need the most are people, supplies, and money. The most critical right now are people, health workers in particular, trained health care workers, but also people who can manage these Ebola treatment facilities.’’
The new MEERkats of Africa, 'eh?
Dlamini-Zuma said African Union states have pledged to send more than 2,000 health care workers to West Africa. She did not say when the workers would arrive.
France will release an extra $25 million to support French efforts to stem the spread of Ebola in Guinea, the French presidency said Tuesday, bringing to $115 million the amount France has given to the crisis so far.
I'm sure the austerity-lashed French people are fine with that -- when they are not out in the streets protesting.
Meanwhile, the president of the World Bank, Jim Yong Kim, said....
I'm really trying to understand why his opinion would be important here while disliking the utter stink coming from see it.
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Yeah, the ‘‘challenge is getting good information,’’ and I know I'm not really finding it there.
Also see:
Hospital releases Dallas nurse treated for Ebola
Amid criticism, Cuomo softens tone in outline of Ebola plan
Boston hospitals balk at call for an Ebola center
Hospital workers are ready if an infected patient arrives
Vermonter being monitored for Ebola, governor says
Just came back from Senegal, did he?
Sorry for the ebb in my pace of blogging, but I guess I'm just sick of the daily propaganda these days. the more print in what now is a special section (has been for days) called the Ebola outbreak.
It seems like the more print and focus a story gets, the less I'm interested in the agenda-pushing pos and deeply suspicious of it. Sorry.
