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...
#1
"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."
A blatantly racist and apartheid approach. Common sense and prudent decision making have no place in a multicultural environment. Yet another argument for the elimination of international borders.
#3
There are the TV doctors who seem to dismiss and underplay the ebola threat. It does not seem like that much is known about the virus at this stage.
#4
I realize that doctors and health organizations are trying to quell panic and prevent people from doing dumb things. On the other hand, consider what an abortion Obamacare has been.
I can recall as a child when public health officials quarantined homes in the 1940s for such things as diphtheria, small pox, measles, chickpox, whooping cough. Many of these diseases have been all but eliminated because of vaccinations but quarantine did seem to prevent the spread of diseases at the time.
#5
I wonder WHO will be responsible if it does break out? WHO could guess? Interesting on quarantine. Daniel Defoe writes that in 1666 the City of London put locks on people's front doors if even 1 person in the house had plague.
The healthy were locked up with the sick to stop them spreading it elsewhere.
They were shut in. A guard was posted outside. If the family wanted food they had to ask the guard to go get it.
#7
NB - when the first round of the Black Death hit Europe, the authorities in Milan sealed in the occupants of homes when it appeared among the residents. Milan is reported to be among the few islands of population that avoided the vast kill off the rest of the continent experienced.
It'll be interesting to see the 'science is settled' ideological socialist crowd fight between 'women and children hurt worse faction' vs the 'greatest good for the greatest number' faction.
As late as the 60s the Public Health authorities had greater powers to remove people that posed a danger through communicable diseases from the public and place in isolation than Law Enforcement (72 hour hold) through isolation protocols. That was before HIV gained constitutional rights.
#2
Impeaching Champ would leave the rest of the Dems in place, paving the way for Warren '16. It is indeed necessary for Champ to drive the Dems over the cliff, damaging their party to the point that they aren't allowed to govern for a generation or so.
Then we'll have to hunt down the Rhinos, of course...
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Spaar die boere save the conservative, middle-class, taxpayer. They will take care of the Rhinos.
#4
If the Dems become toxic the Rhinos will change their ways and glom onto whomever appears to be the strong horse that will allow them to keep their job.
#9
Perhaps this gadget is just in time as the ISIS/ISIL is repor using Saddam-era underground secret tunnels, etc. to sneak fighters + materiel into the Baghdad suburbs.
#2
Israel pulled completely out of Gaza in 2005 or 6, Anon1. After the Israelis built the separation fence to keep out Gazan suicide bombers, they started shooting ever more powerful rockets and missiles over it.
#4
Es but they still have muslims living inside israel, coming in and out to work. That never happened with berlin wall. If you have a koran you are out. Other side of the wall
#8
A brilliant idea whose time has come. Total victory and surrender; then you can dictate terms and have war crimes trials. Maybe, it will start a good precedent for the rest of the world.
#11
Cry "Havoc!" and let slip the dogs of war,
That this foul deed shall smell above the earth
With carrion men, groaning for burial.
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Should have shoved them into Sinai and given them the pennisula to act as a buffer with Egypt. Then the Pals would have had a little oil (which the corrupt little Arafat would have loved) and the Israeli border would be easier to defend.
That may still be the answer before this is over. OTherwise resettle them to the southern tip of Israel. I suspect that port is helpful economically but getting the Pals as far away as possible (with lots of desert) sounds pretty good.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Rooters reports from Liberia 
Hopefully they'll not get too enamored with the locator technology. A few well placed Eaton's tells them you mean business ! 
