It was also relegated to the back section, otherwise known as the Metro, for a couple of days:
Ebola spurs rethinking of devices at MGH
Aid groups see long-term planning as key to Ebola fight
Mass. General showcases its Ebola preparations
Robots go to war against Ebola
Speaking of those that bring war:
Amber Vinson, a nurse who was infected after treating Thomas Eric
Duncan, was greeted by former president George W. Bush Friday at Texas
Health Presbyterian Hospital (David Woo/Dallas Morning News).
Looks like another crisis actor and a war criminal to me.
"The end of Dallas’s Ebola crisis was calmly marked Friday when the last of the 177 people who were being monitored for symptoms of the deadly virus was to be cleared at midnight."
"The government, with help from the UN’s World Food Program, is supposed to deliver food and other services to those people. Some efforts have begun to show progress, but more treatment centers and medical teams are still needed, the World Health Organization said at a news conference in Geneva on Tuesday."
Workers put a man thought to be infected with the Ebola virus into an ambulance in Sierra Leone in September (Tanya Bindra/Associated Press).
Gotta love the photos.
"Amid Ebola disaster, WHO picks new Africa chief" by Virgile Ahissou and Maria Cheng | Associated Press November 06, 2014
COTONOU, Benin — With nearly 5,000 dead of Ebola in West Africa, the World Health Organization elected a new director Wednesday of its Africa office, which has been accused of bungling the response to the outbreak in its early stages.
The new chief, Matshidiso Moeti, is a doctor from Botswana and a WHO veteran who stepped down as deputy director for Africa in March, the same month the crisis was announced.
The results of the five-candidate election were made public at a meeting of the UN agency in Benin and came amid the worst outbreak of the dreaded disease ever seen.
‘‘I hope, with all the control efforts that are now in place, the situation will have improved by the time I take office in February,’’ Moeti said.
She said that the health systems in hard-hit Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea have been devastated and need to be rebuilt and that warning systems and monitoring capabilities must be improved ahead of any future Ebola outbreak.
In an internal draft document last month, WHO accused its Africa office of initially botching the response to Ebola, deriding many of its regional staff members as ‘‘politically motivated appointments.’’ The report said WHO staff in Africa refused to help get visas for outside specialists and compromised the containment effort in other ways.
The outgoing regional director, Dr. Luis Sambo of Angola, is completing his second five-year term and was ineligible to run again. He has declined numerous interview requests.
In a report on lessons learned, released ahead of this week’s meeting, the Africa office attributed the explosive spread of the virus to such factors as poor awareness and badly trained health workers.
Aboubakar Sidiki Diakite, inspector general for Guinea’s health ministry, welcomed the election as an opportunity for reform. ‘‘A change always brings new impetus,’’ he said in Paris. He said the new director would find weaknesses in the system that need to be remedied.
Representatives of WHO’s 47 African member countries voted by secret ballot for the regional director. In her campaign brochure, Moeti listed a priority as building a responsive, effective WHO. Moeti previously held posts in Botswana’s Health Ministry and also led WHO’s Malawi office.
Meanwhile, a Spanish nurse’s aide who was the first person known to have contracted the Ebola virus outside Africa was released from a Madrid hospital Wednesday, almost a month after she tested positive for the disease.
In other developments, President Obama asked Congress for $6.2 billion in emergency funds to fight Ebola in West Africa and strengthen US defenses against the disease.
This guy throws more money around the planet while this country crumbles.
So Ebola was simply cover for Obama to expand Africom, huh?
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Still sticking to the script, Globe?
NEXT DAY UPDATE: N.Y. doctor to be released after Ebola recovery; US opens new unit in Liberia
FURTHER UPDATES: Doctor who had Ebola leaves NYC hospital
California nurses strike over patient care, Ebola
From MIT, crowdsourcing a response to Ebola
Somehow I thought the whole cri$i$ was about money.
Mali: No new Ebola cases, family ends quarantine
"24 jihadists killed in French offensive
BAMAKO — The French military says 24 jihadists were killed in a recent operation carried out in northern Mali that left one French soldier dead. A news release from Operation Barkhane said Saturday that two other extremists had been captured during the offensive carried out in the region of Kidal in late October, the military said (AP)."
