The announcements raised worries about Sierra Leone's fight against Ebola, which already has killed more than 1,400 people across West Africa. The World Health Organization said it was sending a team to investigate how the epidemiologist now undergoing treatment in Germany may have contracted the disease that kills more than half its victims.
Comment: Technically that's true. Killing 90% of people who contract it is in fact more than half. Notice how they are still playing that down? Why not contrast that with H1N1, the little epidemic that could-------n't hurt a fly. Remember all the grave scare mongering? Why aren't they scare mongering now? Ladies and gentlemen, meet the dog that didn't bark.
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This is the real deal. The boy has cried wolf too many times? No, it's obviously an attempt to conceal the fact that they wasted all that time and money meant for working on real epidemic procedures to scare monger. Now they've been caught with their pants down.
"The international surge of health workers is extremely important and if something happens, if health workers get infected and it scares off other international health workers from coming, we will be in dire straits," said Christy Feig, director of WHO communications.
Dr. Sahr Rogers had been working at a hospital in the eastern town of Kenema when he contracted Ebola, said Sierra Leonean presidential adviser Ibrahim Ben Kargbo on Wednesday. Two other top doctors already have succumbed to Ebola since the outbreak emerged there earlier this year, including Dr. Sheik Humarr Khan, who also treated patients in Kenema.
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