EBOLA ~ SHOULD YOU FEEL SAFE?

Yes, Doc!  I hear you and that's what I'm saying, one week 10,000 catching this and now , it's all under control.  Shut the front door!  lol it's a joke for sure!

Be well  my friend <3

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...  and don't forget. Turn on the telly and watch some mindless programme.

Doc~

It's mostly all mindless these days.  Not much on that I enjoy with exception of kids trying to better themselves or historian channel..eh, it's all mindless right exactly where I need to be these days!

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I agree that precautions are wise. Should the precautions be a personal responsibility, a national one or WHO one? The last makes one think given the faulty tetinus vacines in Kenya. What do you think?

The WHO have belatedly woken up to the fact that they not only underestimated the need for action on their part but that the danger of an increasing disaster has yet to be controlled. So what should we be doing? There is nothing guaranteed to be effective. The only sure way to conquer this outbreak is to deal with it in those W African countries. So far only three governments - US, France and the UK - have taken decisive action towards dealing with this at source. The latest figures suggest that there is still a chance of stopping the spread outside those countries. Let us hope that is proven to be so.

Liberia village becomes a new Ebola epicenter[The Associated Press] WADE WILLIAMS Nov 10th 2014 5:42AM

JENE-WONDE, Liberia (AP) - A schoolteacher brought his sick daughter from Liberia's capital to this small town of 300 people. Soon he was dead along with his entire family, and they are now buried in the forest nearby along with an increasing number of residents.The community of Jene-Wonde in Grand Cape Mount County near the border with Sierra Leone has become a new epicenter for the deadly Ebola outbreak in Liberia, which is also hitting Sierra Leone and Guinea.

Momo Sheriff, who lost his son to Ebola, said there is no health care in the community and leaders have no way to manage it. The tiny town already has lost 10 percent of its population to Ebola since late September. Amid all the deaths, markets and farms nearby have been abandoned.

"If the government does not take action, everybody will die in this town," he said. "We are burying two dead bodies today. We don't know who it will be tomorrow. Every day we have to cry," he told an Associated Press journalist.

Liberia has suffered the greatest death toll in the Ebola epidemic, with 2,766 deaths blamed on the virus that had never been seen in West Africa before this year's crisis. After months of aggressive efforts to isolate the sick and safely bury the dead, the World Health Organization says Ebola appears to be declining in Liberia "although new case numbers remain high in parts of the country."

The number of reported cases appears to be even dropping in Liberia's capital, Monrovia. But that is little solace for the people of Jene-Wonde.Juma Mansaray lost her mother and grandmother on the same day here. She said the community has been ostracized from neighboring ones.

"Everywhere we go the people will drive us away," she said. "We are like outcasts; we can't even go to the local market to buy pepper or food because people think we are cursed. We don't know what to do. Most of our relatives in other areas don't want to see us ... we are stuck here."

Abdullai Kamara, the leader of Burial Team A of Grand Cape Mount County Ebola, said the people of Jene-Wonde have been stubborn and in constant denial, which he cites as the reason the disease is still spreading.

Ebola is contracted through direct contact with the bodily fluids of the sick and the dead. For weeks, residents of Jene-Wonde have been chasing away safe burial teams and also have hidden the sick from outside health workers, he said.

"Our people played deaf ear to what was happening," Kamara said. "They denied the truth."

But Kamara said his team needs to take care of its own because "above all, we are still Liberians and we are Cape Mountainians. They are our people. We need people to come to their aid."

James Jallah Paul says people in the town are terrified to help those who are sick. On this recent day, a man in a protective suit sprayed a house with a virus-killing solution where a woman died from Ebola. Health workers carried a body into the forest for burial. Paul said more help is needed.

"We are begging the government to come to our rescue," he said. "If the government does not come to our rescue, we will finish (die) here; this place will be an empty space."

Elsewhere, Ebola continues to rise in Sierra Leone, including its capital, Freetown. There were 40 new Ebola cases in and around Freetown in the previous 24 hours, authorities there said on Monday.

That's the latest news.  It's not over, until it's over!

Frustrated

So, with that said, Redbird, do you agree that they should keep everyone that has been exposed, right where they are?  Meaning, no one allowed out of that country and especially to enter into another country because of the carelessness of the nurse that traveled from Dallas to Maryland?  I don't know. 

My feelings is that if one is there to "help" for the cause, they know the dangers of that, therefore, they shouldn't be surprised if their country won't allow them back until the battle has been won.  Just sayin'

Frustrated

Hey Doc ~

Personally, if one puts themselves in the situation that they become a victim of this virus, they should know that they need to be quarantined until the threat has passed.  That's how I feel about it.

Frustrated Xx

Hi Frustrated

It seems simple to me.

1. it is the duty of a health worker volunteer or any other person to seek to return home only when he knows there are effective quarentine measures available for them. If not they stay where they are. This stems from the moral principle that we should each love our neighbour. 

2. it is the duty of each government to allow travel from areas of a serious contagious disease only when they have set up and maintain effective quarentine facilities. Officials involved in screening and operating of qurentines must be capable of being quarentined whenever potentially infected. The moral principle is that governments should act in the best interests of all its people.

Doc