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Violet_Crumble

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11. Thanks for kicking it. I read a similar article the other day...

Reply to uppityperson (Reply #7)

Tue Oct 14, 2014, 02:30 AM

Oct 2014

I can't find it now, but it was about a woman who had complications and gave birth prematurely and died while her parents were driving from place to place trying to get help for her and the baby. They ended up at an ebola centre and because no-one was sure what the mother had died of they wouldn't take the baby and found out they had nothing in place to deal with suspected cases of ebola in newborns. So they sent the baby home with her grandparents and she died a few days later, probably because a really premmy baby doesn't stand much of a chance without medical treatment. It's a really sad situation and I hope that foreign assistance is extending to setting up at least a few medical centres for people who don't have ebola...

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Pregnant women in Liberia becoming victims of the ebola outbreak [View all] uppityperson Oct 2014 OP

Good info. I think this explains why Duncan didn't know he had been exposed. Avalux Oct 2014 #1

Yes, the whole family thought it was acute malaria Warpy Oct 2014 #3

There are lots of people sick with not-ebola. MSF is one of my favorite charities also, always donat uppityperson Oct 2014 #6

I was looking for information that might begin to explain what happened with MrDuncan and found a uppityperson Oct 2014 #4

Liberia is a bad, bad place to live... SidDithers Oct 2014 #2

Their civil war was exceptionally vicious Warpy Oct 2014 #5

I was going to join the Peace Corps in 80, in Liberia. Friends who went got evacuated due to uppityperson Oct 2014 #8

kick for the afternoon/evening crew as learning about what other countries are like is good uppityperson Oct 2014 #7

Thanks for kicking it. I read a similar article the other day... Violet_Crumble Oct 2014 #11

I'm hoping the same, since troops are building treatment ctrs, normal health-care... countryjake Oct 2014 #12

That's the article. Thanks for posting it... Violet_Crumble Oct 2014 #13

Exactly.Having birth complications, go to hospital where you aren't admitted as you can't prove uppityperson Oct 2014 #14

I can't even imagine what any kind of health care that's not Ebola TorchTheWitch Oct 2014 #9

Thanks for this thoughtful post suffragette Oct 2014 #10