|
Ebola wrap: bodies left in streets, sick turned away, incompetence and more
 Rooters reports from Liberia here.Health workers turned up in Monrovia's Clara Town district on Sunday to remove two bodies of possible victims of the Ebola virus, four days after they dropped dead when nobody would take them to hospital. At a swampy field elsewhere in the Liberian capital, the health ministry ordered 100 graves to be dug for victims of the deadly tropical virus, but only five shallow holes partly filled with water had been prepared by Saturday evening. A few of the corpses were left floating in body bags in pools of water, which led to complaints from the residents. that's healthy. I see the WHO are doing a fine job there, with their US$3.977 billion budget. yes billion, not million. If anyone would like to see their budget it is here. Brown added that the government had decided to enforce mandatory cremations to limit contact with the dead and to avoid contamination of water sources. "The Johnsonville burial did not go that well," said Brown. "From now on, victims will be cremated." Meanwhile, South Korea bans 3 Nigerians from coming to a conference The Guardian reports here. There have been no actual cases of ebola in Nigeria apart from one guy on the plane. Perhaps the ban could have more to do with the fear they won't go home again. Up to 50 African delegates to the AIDS conference in Melbourne, Australia, refused to go home today. They are claiming they are "asylum seekers" even though they come from happy countries like Tanzania, and have good jobs which paid for them to fly to Australia for a conference... The Sydney Morning Herald gives them super sympathetic coverage here. An Isolation Zone has also been declared in West Africa, the ABC reports here. The Blame Game has begun and once again the ugly stick is hitting everyone except the guilty party. The UK's top doctor Professor John Ashton says there is no cure because evil rich pharmaceutical companies don't care about poor blacks in Africa in the Daily Mail here. Which appears to be a cheap shot as they are profit making enterprises, not charities or publicly funded bodies. There is one publicly funded body though, WHOse job it is to deal with Ebola and which didn't do its job, despite having $3.977 billion of public money to play with. WHO could it be? Meanwhile the Philippines has done something intelligent despite being possibly on the verge of a coup. It will monitor any arrivals from ebola zones for a month, the Malay Mail reports here. Manila last month imposed a ban on travel to Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone amid the world's worst ever outbreak of the tropical virus, while the health ministry announced extra measures today. looks like it is safer in Manilla than in Australia, UK or US which did none of that... Posted by: anon1 2014-08-04 |
| http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=397055 |