Showing posts with label Guinea. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Guinea. Show all posts

Thursday, November 13, 2014

What worked?

November 13, 2014 AP , Bil de Blasio 0 Comments
Dr. Craig Spencer Is 'Ebola free'

AP, Nov. 11, 2014, My Fox NY
An emergency room doctor in New York City who had Ebola was released from the hospital on Tuesday.

Dr. Craig Spencer, 33, joined Mayor Bill de Blasio and several other health officials outside Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan to address the media.

Spencer tested positive for the virus Oct. 23, just days after returning from treating patients in Guinea with Doctors Without Borders.

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Tuesday, October 28, 2014

But not here?

October 28, 2014 Australia , Ebola 0 Comments
Australia Issues Blanket Visa Ban On Ebola-hit Countries

Matt Siegel, Oct. 28, 2014, Reuters.com
Australia came under fire on Tuesday from health experts and rights advocates after it issued a blanket ban on visas from West African nations affected by the Ebola outbreak, making it the first rich nation to shut its doors to the region.

Australia has not recorded a case of Ebola despite a number of scares, and conservative Prime Minister Tony Abbott has so far resisted repeated requests to send medical personnel to help battle the outbreak on the ground.

The decision to refuse entry for anyone from Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia, while touted by the government as a necessary safety precaution, was criticised by experts and advocates as politically motivated and shortsighted.

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Friday, September 19, 2014

How do you fight THAT?

September 19, 2014 Ebola , Fox News 0 Comments
At Least 8 Ebola Workers Killed 'In Cold Blood' By Villagers In Guinea

By Fox News, Sept. 19, 2014

At least eight Ebola aid workers and journalists were reportedly murdered and dumped in a latrine in a remote village in Guinea in a frightening example of the growing distrust locals have of foreigners coming to help stem the mushrooming health crisis.

These deaths are believed to be the first resulting from resistance to international efforts to curb the Ebola outbreak in the region, Reuters reported. Other aid teams have been forced to turn back by crowds in several locations, and a treatment center in Monrovia, Liberia was attacked and looted.

Villagers in an area near the city of Nzerekore used machetes and clubs to attack eight members of a team trying to raise awareness about the disease,officials told the BBC.

"The eight bodies were found in the village latrine," Albert Damantang Camara, a spokesman for Guinea's government, told Reuters on Thursday, adding that they had been "killed in cold blood by the villagers."

Prime Minister Fofana reported that the aid mission included "local administrators, two medical officers, a preacher and three accompanying journalists." They were reportedly attacked by a large crowd, throwing stones, from the village of Wome.

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