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arirish
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Posted: July 02 2014 at 7:12am |
Red Cross suspends Ebola operations in southeast Guinea after threats
By Misha Hussain Wed Jul 2, 2014 6:28pm IST DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The Red Cross in Guinea said on Wednesday it had been forced to suspend operations tackling Ebola in the country's southeast after staff there were threatened by a group of men armed with knives. The incident on Tuesday in Gueckedou, about 650 kms (403 miles) southeast of the capital Conakry, is the latest in a series against health workers, undermining efforts to help the region's weak health systems fight one of the world's deadliest diseases. A Medicins Sans Frontieres center in nearby Macenta was attacked by youths two months ago after staff there were accused of bringing the disease to Guinea. "Locals wielding knives surrounded a marked Red Cross vehicle. We've suspended operations for safety reasons," a Red Cross official in West Africa said, asking not to be named. "I imagine this won't be the last time this happens," he added. The outbreak of the disease in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone is the largest and deadliest ever, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). The organization has recorded 467 deaths from 759 known cases since February. Local and foreign doctors are battling a deep-rooted fear and lack of understanding of the disease, which has driven dozens of victims to evade treatment and made it harder to track patients. Health ministers from 11 West African states are meeting in Accra, Ghana, on Wednesday and Thursday to try to coordinate the regional response to the epidemic. WHO has flagged three main factors driving the spread of Ebola - the burial of victims in accordance with cultural practices and traditional beliefs in rural communities, the dense population around the capital cities of Guinea and Liberia and the bustling cross-border trade across the region. <For a map of the region affected by Ebola, please click - link.reuters.com/fyj32w> Ebola causes fever, vomiting, bleeding and diarrhoea and can kill up to 90 percent of those it infects. Highly contagious, it is transmitted through contact with the blood or other fluids of infected people or animals. Liberia's President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has called the crisis a national public health emergency. Addressing his nation for the first time about the issue late on Tuesday, Sierra Leone's President Ernest Bai Koroma called for leaders on all sides of the political divide to work together to tackle the crisis. "This is a national fight. And all must be involved," he said. Koroma said that the government and the U.N. World Food Program had started providing food aid to 30,000 people in the two districts affected by Ebola. (Additional reporting by Umaru Fofana; Editing by Bate Felix, David Lewis and Sonya Hepinstall) http://in.reuters.com/article/2014/07/02/us-health-ebola-westafrica-redcross-idINKBN0F714220140702 |
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arirish,good,let them live and die the way that they want to. They are tired of having the "white mans" values forced on them.----There are much bigger problems in the world. Johnray1
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I agree. I would not want to work in full protective gear in a tropical environment, risking my life in this situation. It sounds like this will run as far as it is likely to....until the patient population thins out. Based on epidemiological analysis conducted by WHO, three major factors are contributing to patterns of transmission, which are currently responsible for the continuous propagation of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in the sub-region. These factors include transmission of EVD in rural communities, facilitated by strong cultural practices and traditional beliefs; transmission of EVD in densely populated peri-urban areas of Conakry in Guinea and Monrovia in Liberia; and cross-border transmission of EVD along the border areas of Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone, where commercial and social activities continue among the border areas of these countries. |
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White men/women have been trying to save their souls and cure their illness and take their mineral for over 100 years. We have only succeeded in taking their minerals.
It is sad but the people of Africa do not want to be saved they even kill each other for money/diamonds and for tribal hates. So much for the missionaries teaching them about the love of Jesus. Like the middle east (except to defend Israel) we need to leave Africa. |
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The problem is that some of these people, and I'm being truthful here, have IQ's is in the 70 to 80 range. This is no joke. If we give up on them then it will only compound the problem. We're not dealing with adults, but childlike people in their levels of intelligence perhaps brought about by generations of malnutrition. Regarding the IQ's in Africa, look at the video below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxAhwYoZQKU The situation is very sad. |
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Lack of education does not lead to lack of IQ's. Healthcare needs some basic sort of foundation of knowledge. When people have never seen a doctor in their live going to a hospital when a lot of people die there has to become a problem.
In West Africa you might need to start building a basis of trust before you can get any further. Only by that time Ebola can be a problem for a large part of Africa.
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These people have low IQ's in addition to lack of education.
People have handed out flyers in order to educate them, but they lack the ability to reason as we would due to IQ and culture. They would rather see a witch doctor. How can you gain their trust if you can't get them to believe that the disease exists in the first place? The people are in denial. We can't possibly hope to understand why they are in denial and why they fail to take the precautions per the fliers that they were given. Chalk it up to a combination of low IQ, low intelligence, and culture. Chalk it up to loving bat meat or that being the only way they can feed themselves. Who the heck knows. Since they can't be educated, they need to close the borders! |
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