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I don't want to panic anyone, but Ebola may be coming to a town near you
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10-17-2014, 11:10 AM | #496 |
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10-17-2014, 11:16 AM | #497 |
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No shit!?!?
UN: We Botched Response to the Ebola Outbreak LONDON — Oct 17, 2014, 1:04 PM ET By MARIA CHENG AP Medical Writer Medical staff in protective gear escort Nina Pham, exiting the ambulance, to a nearby aircraft at Love Field, Thursday, Oct. 16, 2014, in Dallas. Pham, a nurse at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas, was diagnosed with the Ebola virus after caring for Thomas Eric Duncan who died of the same virus. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez) AP Associated Press In a draft document, the World Health Organization has acknowledged that it botched attempts to stop the now-spiraling Ebola outbreak in West Africa, blaming factors including incompetent staff and a lack of information. In the document obtained by The Associated Press, the agency wrote that experts should have realized that traditional infectious disease containment methods wouldn't work in a region with porous borders and broken health systems. "Nearly everyone involved in the outbreak response failed to see some fairly plain writing on the wall," WHO said in the document. "A perfect storm was brewing, ready to burst open in full force." The U.N. health agency acknowledged that, at times, even its own bureaucracy was a problem. It noted that the heads of WHO country offices in Africa are "politically motivated appointments" made by the WHO regional director for Africa, Dr. Luis Sambo, who does not answer to the agency's chief in Geneva, Dr. Margaret Chan. WHO is the U.N.'s specialized health agency, responsible for setting global health standards and coordinating the global response to disease outbreaks. The document — a timeline on the Ebola outbreak — was not issued publicly but the AP was told the health agency would be releasing it earlier this week. However, WHO officials said in an email Friday that the timeline would now probably not be released publicly. No official at the agency would comment Friday on the draft report. Dr. Peter Piot, the co-discoverer of the Ebola virus, agreed in an interview Friday that WHO acted far too slowly, largely because of its Africa office. "It's the regional office in Africa that's the front line," he said at his office in London. "And they didn't do anything. That office is really not competent." Piot, director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, also questioned why it took WHO five months and 1,000 deaths before the agency declared Ebola an international health emergency in August. "I called for a state of emergency to be declared in July and for military operations to be deployed," Piot said. But he said WHO might have been scarred by its experience during the 2009 swine flu pandemic, when it was slammed for hyping the situation. In late April, during a teleconference on Ebola among infectious disease experts that included WHO officials, Doctors Without Borders and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, questions were raised about the performance of WHO experts, as not all of them bothered to send Ebola reports to WHO headquarters, according to the draft document. In the timeline, WHO said it was "particularly alarming" that the head of its Guinea office refused to help get visas for an expert Ebola team to come in and that $500,000 in aid was being blocked by administrative hurdles. Guinea, along with Sierra Leone and Liberia, is one of the hardest-hit nations in the current outbreak, with 862 deaths so far blamed on Ebola. The Ebola outbreak already has killed 4,546 people in West Africa out of at least 9,191 cases. WHO says within two months, there could be new 10,000 cases of Ebola every week unless stronger measures to fight the outbreak are put into place. When Doctors Without Borders began warning in April that the Ebola outbreak was out of control, a dispute on social media broke out between the charity and a WHO spokesman who insisted the outbreak was under control.
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10-17-2014, 11:38 AM | #498 |
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You are the only one I know then who tested positive for it which is light years from the 60 million+ number the CDC blatantly lied about to cover their asses.
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10-17-2014, 11:44 AM | #499 |
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What are you talking about, BD?
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says the poster that completely ignores the scientific information that runs contrary to his kooky beliefs about vaccinations.
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You guys just need something to be scared about in here and someone to point your finger at that isn't doing what you think they should. Give me a break.
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Do you also dispute the number of hospitalizations and deaths?
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10-17-2014, 12:43 PM | #508 |
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Dude, you were here during that when they were releasing the numbers and nobody had it so they quit testing for it. When asked why they did that they said because they already knew it was a pandemic which made no sense at all. Over 60 million means 1 in 5 Americans had it. At that time on ChiefsPlanet the only person that claimed to have it was Dane but they never tested him. Are you kidding me right now? You lived through this? Did one in five people you know claim to have swine flu because I didn't know anyone who tested positive for it until Aries who just said it now.
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