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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

New, Larger Ebola Center Opens in Liberia

2014-08-18

[NY Times] Doctors Without Borders began accepting patients on Sunday at what is intended to be the largest-ever Ebola treatment center, near Monrovia, Liberia's capital. The center is near two previous units, which have been filled beyond their intended capacity as the number of suspected Ebola patients in the capital grew greatly in recent days.

The new unit, on the grounds of the Eternal Love Winning Africa mission hospital in Paynesville City, is designed to hold 120 patients and can be expanded to accommodate more than 300. There is an urgent need for it. On Sunday, patients who might be coming down with Ebola waited outdoors on the hospital grounds as a storm battered the city with rain. Nine patients were admitted to the new unit.

Posted by:Fred

#2 their OWN cultural and tribal habits/traditions are killing them. I think Darwin had something to say about it, sadly, that's the only way to end it. Let it burn itself out by containing, quarantine, and isolation

Posted by: Frank G 2014-08-18 21:37

#1 I suspect that centralized treatment isn't going to be good enough.

Can we develop some protocols that can be carried out in a village with only rags, mats, and bleach that would reduce the likelihood of the caretaker also dying to something "acceptable?" If the people have "ownership" of the treatment I'd think there'd be less resistance, and fewer people dying.

Of course you have to impress on them the need of a lazar-house and isolation, of relying on bleach and not salt-baths, providing the bleach (not a trivial logistical problem, but doable)--and keeping the message going all the time.

BTW it's the rainy season, with all that implies for sanitation, roads, and readily available fresh water.

Posted by: James 2014-08-18 21:20

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