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Unburied Bodies Show Ebola-Hit Areas' Transportation Woes
 [BLOOMBERG] Burials of people who have died of Ebola are taking as long as five days in Liberia as a shortage of ambulances and fuel compound the fear and isolation that are stoking the worst outbreak of the virus on record.A lack of vehicles and a fuel shortage are also hampering the ability of the World Health Organization and its allies to reach affected communities and investigate new cases, said Rick Brennan, director of the WHO's department of emergency risk management and humanitarian response. "Getting those activities running in the counties requires a lot of vehicles and fuel, and both of those are in short supply," Brennan said by phone from Monrovia, the capital of Liberia, which has the highest corpse count in the current outbreak at 694. "The roads here really beat up the vehicles, so they don't have a long shelf-life." Posted by: Fred 2014-08-31 |
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