Mali Nurse Endures Neighbors’ Stoning to Battle

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Mali Nurse Endures Neighbors’ Stoning to Battle Ebola
“Rita has Ebola!” her neighbors chanted as they gathered at 
her front door after they learned that two patients at the clinic where 
she worked in the Malian capital, Bamako, died of the disease. 
“The
 neighbors and some kids came after me and threw stones and handfuls of 
sand,” Rita, who asked that her last name not be used, said in an 
interview. While Rita, 38, never was in contact with either patient 
stricken down by the virus at Bamako’s Pasteur Clinic, she hid in her 
house for two days before an ambulance came to her rescue, she said. 

Video: Nurse Monitored for Ebola in N.J. Heads to Maine
Mali’s nurses and doctors are facing the stigma tied to Ebola 
that made medical workers targets in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea, 
the three nations hardest hit by the virus. Misinformation about how the
 disease spreads and fear about being isolated have hampered efforts to 
recruit workers. In the U.S., President Barack Obama has encouraged 
volunteers to travel to West Africa, while putting in place steps to 
ease concern returning workers may spread the disease. 
The United
 Nations has begged for more doctors and nurses to help contain Ebola in
 the region, where there have been more than 14,000 cases and at least 
5,170 have died. Health workers are the most at risk of getting the 
disease because they can more easily come into contact with infected 
bodily fluids. Ebola has killed more than half of the about 500 
physicians who got it in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea since 
December. 
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2014-11-18/mali-nurse-braves-neighbors-stoning-to-battle-ebola

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Albert Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Joined: April 24 2006 Status: Offline Points: 47746	Post Options Post Reply Quote Albert Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Mali Nurse Endures Neighbors’ Stoning to Battle Posted: November 19 2014 at 10:11am
	Mali Nurse Endures Neighbors’ Stoning to Battle Ebola “Rita has Ebola!” her neighbors chanted as they gathered at her front door after they learned that two patients at the clinic where she worked in the Malian capital, Bamako, died of the disease. “The neighbors and some kids came after me and threw stones and handfuls of sand,” Rita, who asked that her last name not be used, said in an interview. While Rita, 38, never was in contact with either patient stricken down by the virus at Bamako’s Pasteur Clinic, she hid in her house for two days before an ambulance came to her rescue, she said. Video: Nurse Monitored for Ebola in N.J. Heads to Maine Mali’s nurses and doctors are facing the stigma tied to Ebola that made medical workers targets in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea, the three nations hardest hit by the virus. Misinformation about how the disease spreads and fear about being isolated have hampered efforts to recruit workers. In the U.S., President Barack Obama has encouraged volunteers to travel to West Africa, while putting in place steps to ease concern returning workers may spread the disease. The United Nations has begged for more doctors and nurses to help contain Ebola in the region, where there have been more than 14,000 cases and at least 5,170 have died. Health workers are the most at risk of getting the disease because they can more easily come into contact with infected bodily fluids. Ebola has killed more than half of the about 500 physicians who got it in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea since December. http://www.businessweek.com/news/2014-11-18/mali-nurse-braves-neighbors-stoning-to-battle-ebola

newbie1 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Adviser Group Joined: July 29 2014 Location: Western Canada Status: Offline Points: 2345	Post Options Post Reply Quote newbie1 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: November 24 2014 at 4:37pm
	WoHoo! 50/50 odds of surviving if you volunteer, and if you survive the Ebola - you get to survive tribesman with machetes or neighbors with stones.... YUP - me's definitely going to run down to the cdc office and sign up - right now!!!!
	Cherish each moment

Johnray1 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Valued Member Joined: April 23 2006 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 8159	Post Options Post Reply Quote Johnray1 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: November 24 2014 at 5:34pm
	newbie1, do not feel bad. I am literally afraid of nothing,including death. But I am not volunteering to go to Africa to treat Ebola. That is suicide,in my opinion. Because there are so many different forces at play in Africa,that I can not sort them out,so stay away. I believe that everyone can and most people should take a calculated risk(such as combat). To me,treating Ebola in Africa is not a calculated risk,especially when the person beside you or behind you might infect you on purpose.Johnray1