© Ahmed Jallanzo/EPALiberian nurses prepare to carry the body of an Ebola victim.
I am supervising the suspect tent, which has room for 25 patients who are likely to have Ebola - 80-90% of those we test have the virus. We administer treatment for malaria, start patients on antibiotics, paracetamol, multivitamins, rehydration supplements, food, water and juice while they wait for their results. Sometimes people have arrived too late and die shortly after arriving.
In one afternoon last week I watched five seemingly fit, healthy, young men die. I gave the first a bottle of oral rehydration solution and came back with another for the second. In the half a minute or so in which I had been away the first man died, his bottle of water spilt across the floor. The four others followed in quick succession.
Comment: It is a tragedy that more resources have not been made available to fight the epidemic in Ebola. The virus is mutating and spreading at an alarming rate. While there is evidence that there are alternative modes of preventing and treating the disease, BigPharma is only researching vaccines that will no doubt facilitate mutations and predispose those gullible enough to be vaccine guinea pigs to becoming infected.
See also: New Light on the Black Death: The Viral and Cosmic Connection.