This story reminds me of that wonderful saying that if you think investing in education is expensive, try ignorance. One of the biggest problems health aid workers are facing in the war against Ebola is ignorance and superstition. Already some of those trying to help have been abducted and killed. This report documents the violent … Read more
By Clair MacDougall MONROVIA (Reuters) – A crowd attacked a makeshift Ebola quarantine centre in a rundown neighbourhood of the Liberian capital, throwing stones and looting equipment and food, witnesses said, and a health worker said patients had been removed from the building. “They came in and took whatever they could take and took their … Read more
The World Health Organization on Friday declared the Ebola epidemic sweeping across western Africa, where it has already killed nearly 1,000 people, an international health emergency. The UN health body said its emergency committee, which includes global medical and policy experts, had declared the deadliest known outbreak of the Ebola virus a “public health emergency … Read more