Comment: They keep writing reports, but what is actually being done? Meanwhile, people are also dying from malaria, typhoid fever and measles and women are dying in childbirth, because there are no beds available.
The FAO says that food is in increasingly short supply. Fields in some regions have been abandoned in part because people perceive Ebola may be coming from them or from the water used to irrigate them. "People are terrified by how fast the disease is spreading," Alexis Bonte, FAO Representative in Liberia, said in a statement. "Neighbors, friends and family members are dying within just a few days of exhibiting shocking symptoms, the causes of which are not fully understood by many local communities. This leads them to speculate that water, food or even crops could be responsible. Panic ensues, causing farmers to abandon their fields for weeks." - Washington Post
Too late to stop virus?
After months of seeing almost no qualified doctors volunteer to help treat infected Ebola victims in West Africa, physicians are now signing up in droves, but it may be too late, experts say. The outbreak, which has claimed more than 3,000 lives, was deemed an "unprecedented epidemic" back in March, but critical health care workers didn't heed the call, which was a major reason why the virus couldn't be contained. While physicians are now stepping up in a bolstering way, experts say there will be a considerable delay before these volunteers can make a noticeable difference. "As a result [of the delay] thousands of people will die," Dr. Joanne Liu, president of Doctors Without Borders, told The New York Times. "I can't say the exact figure because we don't know how many unreported cases there are. But thousands for sure." The virus could eventually infect as many as 20,000 people, according to the World Health Organization. But enough physicians have come forward that Doctors Without Borders, the nonprofit that has been leading the charge in combating the outbreak, recently announced that it no longer needs any more volunteers. The news came on the heels of a troubling statement Liu made earlier this month when she said that the organization was "overwhelmed" and "at a loss" as to how it was supposed to shoulder so much of the responsibility in addressing the crisis. - Huffington Post
Hell is for little people.
Their lives don't matter, that much
Come, let us watch them on tv and scan the internet for the latest update.
So that our lives do matter.
signed,
the people of Huffington Post, etc.