[Ynet] Shoppers in Sierra Leone rushed to stock up on food Thursday ahead of a three-day nationwide shutdown, during which the country's 6 million people will be confined to their homes while volunteers search house-to-house for Ebola victims in hiding and hand out soap in a desperate bid to slow the accelerating outbreak.
| Good luck with that. Sincerely. |
The disease sweeping West Africa has also touched Liberia, Guinea, Nigeria and Senegal
... a nation of about 14 million on the west coast of Africa bordering Mauretania to the north, Mali to the east, and a pair of Guineas to the south, one of them Bissau. It is 90 percent Mohammedan and has more than 80 political parties. Its primary purpose seems to be absorbing refugees...
and is believed to have sickened more than 5,300 people, the World Health Organization reported. In a sign the crisis is picking up steam, more than 700 of those cases were recorded in the last week for which data is available.
Ebola is estimated to have killed more than 2,600 people, with most of the deaths in Liberia. But WHO has said that the official toll is probably a gross underestimate and that most patients are at home, infecting others, when they should be in treatment centers.
| This is the Third World, O World Health Organization spokesperson. There weren't enough treatment centers a few weeks ago, before there were as many patients as now. But even if there were enough treatment centers, there aren't enough staff, equipment, or medicines to treat even the number of patients they had a few weeks ago...before half of the staff that came down with the infection died of it themselves. |
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