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In reply to the discussion: 16 Members of Doctors Without Borders Infected with Ebola, Nine Dead [View all]LovingA2andMI
(7,006 posts)64. Viruses MUTATE....
So we need to slow our roles with believing carte' blanche what the CDC or any other so-called Health Care Organization are "Telling Us'.
To the point, how exactly do we know the virus is not airborne? This virus has mutated to a point where workers employed with Doctors Without Boarders --- who worked with the Virus in West Africa for YEARS without being inflected themselves-- are not only bring inflected but are also DYING as a result.
With such, we really need to stop with repeating the lines threw out about the CDC about this Ebola virus in America and HOPE this outbreak is ceased soon -- or in our band-aid privatized healthcare system WE ARE ALL AT RISK.
"JOHANNESBURG (AP) International aid organization Doctors Without Borders said that 16 of its staff members have been infected with Ebola and nine of them have died.
Speaking at a press conference in Johannesburg Tuesday, the head of Doctors Without Borders in South Africa Sharon Ekambaram said medical workers have received inadequate assistance from the international community.
"Where is WHO Africa? Where is the African Union?" said Ekambaram who worked in Sierra Leone from August to September. "We've all heard their promises in the media but have seen very little on the ground."
Four of the organization's medical workers who had just returned from Sierra Leone and Liberia said they were frustrated, "chasing after the curve of the outbreak," according to Jens Pederson, the aid organization's humanitarian affairs adviser."
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16 Members of Doctors Without Borders Infected with Ebola, Nine Dead [View all]
Purveyor
Oct 2014
OP
Why is it when a nurse contracts Ebola in Dallas it's all about how she broke protocol, but
jtuck004
Oct 2014
#4
I think the odds come into play here. Let's see you have the meds in Africa treating hundreds
LiberalArkie
Oct 2014
#44
That's another possibility, thank you. Also, the people who are making the most $$$ from this aren't
jtuck004
Oct 2014
#27
Or, they don't want to admit that the protocol was incorrect or not communicated.
Hoppy
Oct 2014
#38
Doctors Without Borders don't have access to the same kind of facilities and money as US hospitals.
Voice for Peace
Oct 2014
#17
I doubt it. They, unlike you, seem to be aware of the impossible working conditions
kestrel91316
Oct 2014
#28
Dr. Frieden: "Looking back, we say we should have put an even larger team on the ground immediately"
pnwmom
Oct 2014
#60
Really really really hoping the vaccine trials show it to be safe AND effective.
kestrel91316
Oct 2014
#19
Hopefully the blood transfusions will be found to work. I know that they need more money to
jwirr
Oct 2014
#25
There's more money to be made curing the erectile dysfunction of Wall Street CEOs. eom
whereisjustice
Oct 2014
#53
Yes they mutate, but they do not do so as to completely change the mode of transmission
Marrah_G
Oct 2014
#74
They (The Rich) will contract vendors to build isolation units immediately
LovingA2andMI
Oct 2014
#71