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(51,122 posts) Fri Jun 20, 2014, 08:11 AM Jun 2014

Ebola ‘Out Of Control’: Doctors Without Borders [View all]

Source: AP

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) -- A senior official for Doctors Without Borders says the Ebola outbreak ravaging West Africa is "totally out of control" and that the medical group is stretched to the limit in its capacity to respond.

Bart Janssens, the director of operations for the group in Brussels, said Friday that international organizations and the governments involved need to send in more health experts and increase public education messages about how to stop the spread of the disease.

Janssens said the outbreak is far from over and will probably end up as the most deadly on record.

According to the latest figures from the World Health Organization, Ebola has already been linked to more than 330 deaths in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia.

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Ebola ‘Out Of Control’: Doctors Without Borders [View all] onehandle Jun 2014 OP

That is really serious. dipsydoodle Jun 2014 #1

A country with oil and gold KurtNYC Jun 2014 #2

As always, the rich get richer. nt valerief Jun 2014 #6

Sounds like all 4 horses to me. WinkyDink Jun 2014 #7

posted something similar yesterday intaglio Jun 2014 #3

That disease scares the hell out of me. The only good thing about it is that it kills its host catbyte Jun 2014 #4

Too fast for widespread contagiousness? PADemD Jun 2014 #18

And the World Cup is going on Union Scribe Jun 2014 #19

That's why I'm glad it can't be transmitted through the air. There has to be contact with blood & catbyte Jun 2014 #21

Consider this PADemD Jun 2014 #24

It can mutate to a pneumonic form adigal Jun 2014 #28

then do not read Spillover esp before bed! lunasun Jun 2014 #22

spillover was a good book pitohui Jun 2014 #32

There are 2 strains. One is Ebola Sudan which is not as onecent Jun 2014 #35

I just read on the WHO website that it's spread by the handling of dead or dying animals. DesertDiamond Jun 2014 #5

"Animals" including the human kind. WinkyDink Jun 2014 #8

if you're hannibal then worry otherwise not pitohui Jun 2014 #31

"The Hot Zone." Read it and fear. WinkyDink Jun 2014 #9

I have never consumed a book so quickly, so ravenously as I did Hot Zone. Read it. Ed Suspicious Jun 2014 #16

I will come in 3rd on the read it train, but Sentath Jun 2014 #17

That's the one about Ebola reston, right? moriah Jun 2014 #23

Yes. Scary book, and totally un-put-downable. n/t ms liberty Jun 2014 #27

Serious but sadly smallcat88 Jun 2014 #10

IMO Doctors Without Borders is a great choice for our charitable donations groundloop Jun 2014 #12

absolutely pitohui Jun 2014 #33

The rise in cases may be due to a reluctance ....... PumpkinAle Jun 2014 #11

Is this the worst Ebola outbreak ever? Moostache Jun 2014 #13

in the past it's been confined to remote villages with little chance to expose beyond those villages magical thyme Jun 2014 #14

Thanks...thats what I originally thought... Moostache Jun 2014 #15

the odds of that a pretty slim magical thyme Jun 2014 #25

The line I read on Ebola, was the locals where it was seen had the best method of dealing with it. happyslug Jun 2014 #20

That's how the plague was handled in London, except they did bury the dead. LeftyMom Jun 2014 #34

If this turns pneumonic, which I think it has in monkeys adigal Jun 2014 #26

K&R...this is an important story.. ms liberty Jun 2014 #29

Kicking. nt littlemissmartypants Jun 2014 #30