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Cuba leads fight against Ebola in Africa as west frets about border security

The island nation has sent hundreds of health workers to help control the deadly infection while richer countries worry about their security – instead of heeding UN warnings that vastly increased resources are urgently needed
 

in Lagos, The Observer, Sunday 12 October 2014, Source - The Guardian

 

Cuban doctors and health workers arrive at Freetown's airport to help the fight against Ebola in Sie

Cuban doctors and health workers arrive at Freetown's airport to help the fight against Ebola in Sierra Leone.

Photograph: Florian Plaucheur/AFP/Getty Images

 

As the official number of Ebola deaths in west Africa’s crisis topped 4,000 last week – experts say the actual figure is at least twice as high – the UN issued a stark call to arms. Even to simply slow down the rate of infection, the international humanitarian effort would have to increase massively, warned secretary-general Ban Ki-moon.

 

“We need a 20-fold resource mobilisation,” he said. “We need at least a 20-fold surge in assistance – mobile laboratories, vehicles, helicopters, protective equipment, trained medical personnel, and medevac capacities.”

 

But big hitters such as China or Brazil, or former colonial powers such France and the UK, have not been stepping up to the plate. Instead, the single biggest medical force on the Ebola frontline has been a small island: Cuba.

 

That a nation of 11 million people, with a GDP of $6,051 per capita, is leading the effort says much of the international response. A brigade of 165 Cuban health workers arrived in Sierra Leone last week, the first batch of a total of 461. In sharp contrast, western governments have appeared more focused on stopping the epidemic at their borders than actually stemming it in west Africa. The international effort now struggling to keep ahead of the burgeoning cases might have nipped the outbreak in the bud had it come earlier.

 

AndrÉ Carrilho, an illustrator whose work has appeared in the New York Times and Vanity Fair, noted the moment when the background hum of Ebola coverage suddenly turned into a shrill panic. Only in August, after two US missionaries caught the disease while working in Liberia and were flown to Atlanta, did the mushrooming crisis come into clear focus for many in the west.

 

“Suddenly we could put a face and a name to these patients, something that I had not felt before. To top it all, an experimental drug was found and administered in record time,” explained the Lisbon-based artist. “I started thinking on how I could depict what I perceived to be a deep imbalance between the reporting on the deaths of hundreds of African patients and the personal tragedy of just two westerners.”

 

The result was a striking illustration: a sea of beds filled with black African patients writhing in agony, while the media notice only the single white patient.

 

“It’s natural that people care more about what’s happening closer to their lives and realities,” Carrilho said. “But I also think we all have a responsibility to not view what is not our immediate problem as a lesser problem. The fact that thousands of deaths in Africa are treated as a statistic, and that one or two patients inside our borders are reported in all their individual pain, should be cause for reflection.”

 

With the early alarm bells ignored, the handful of international health agencies which did act were quickly overwhelmed, allowing Ebola to slip across the border of Guinea and gather pace in Liberia and Sierra Leone.

 

The sentiment behind Carrilho’s illustration neatly encapsulates a renewed media frenzy now that as two cases have been imported into the US, and a Spanish nurse infected over the past month.

 

“What I’d like to see is a little less hysteria in the US and the UK,” said Andrew Gleadle, programme director for the International Medical Corps (IMC), which recruits health personnel for global humanitarian disasters, as he snatched a breather between shifts in Sierra Leone. “We may get a few isolated cases [in the west] but we’re not going to get an epidemic. We need more focus on west Africa where the real problem is.”

 

The WHO estimates Sierra Leone alone needs around 10,000 health workers. MÉdecins sans FrontiÈres, the international medical aid charity which has led efforts from the beginning, has about 250 staff on the ground in the affected countries. The second-largest government brigade is from the African Union, which is dispatching about 100 health workers.

 

It’s not the first time Cuba has played an outsized role in a major disaster. Its government may be beset by allegations of human rights abuse, but its contribution to relief brigades is unrivalled: currently, some 50,000 Cuban-trained health workers are spread over 66 countries. Cuba provided the largest medical contingent after the Haiti earthquake disaster in 2010, providing care to almost 40% of the victims. And while some 400 US doctors volunteered in the aftermath of that quake, fewer than 10 had registered for the IMC’s Ebola effort, the organisation said.

 

Sierra Leone president Ernest Bai Koroma personally welcomed the Cuban delegation in the capital Freetown. “This is a friendship that we have experienced since the 1970s and today you have demonstrated that you are a great friend of the country,” he said as they gathered in a room draped with the Cuban flag.

 

In August 1960, Che Guevara, a former doctor, dreamed of a world in which every medic would “[utilise] the technical knowledge of his profession in the service of the revolution and the people”. Thus began a history of service in some the world’s poorest and most forgotten states.

 

The island nation began forging links with the continent during the 1960s, when Cuban soldiers fought alongside southern Africa’s liberation fighters. Guevara personally pitched into the brutal battlefields of the newly independent Democratic Republic of Congo, but after becoming suspicious about rebel leaders’ motives, suggested they replaced fighters with medical aid.

 

Ties deepened in the 1970s as Africa’s newly independent nations flirted with socialism, and aligned themselves with the communist state who opposed their former colonial rulers. Teachers, doctors and soldiers from Cuba poured into 17 African countries.

 

Today, fading signposts with Spanish street names, peeling posters with improbable slogans (“Viva la revoluciÓn siempre!” – long live the revolution, always – says one in Freetown) and a love of salsa music remain across much of west Africa.

 

But help will soon be coming from places other than Cuba. The US will pour in $400m, plans to build at least a dozen 100-bed field hospitals using some 4,000 troops, and has deployed 65 health officials to Liberia. Japan, the world’s fourth-richest nation, has pledged $40m and India $13m. China has chipped in around $5m, as well as a Chinese-built and staffed mobile clinic in Sierra Leone.

 

But even if efforts to roughly double the current bed capacity of about 1,000 in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone succeed, these facilities will still lack the health personnel needed to staff them.

 

In part, slow staff recruitment is down to the high number of medics who have already been infected, hovering around 300 so far.

 

“Even if you know what you’re doing, people make mistakes. It’s very, very difficult to wear those suits in hot weather,” said Chikwe Ihekweazu, an epidemiologist who worked with the WHO during the 2004 outbreak in Sudan, where temperatures can soar up to 42C.

 

“A lot of health workers died in the beginning and that obviously had an impact on recruitment. But the rates have fallen, and what that shows is that health workers can learn, with the correct training in infection control.”

 

Others are also hopeful that staff numbers will increase. Gleadle, of the IMC, said the slow pace at which centres were being scaled up might actually draw in more volunteers in the long run.

 

He said: “Even if we have a 100-bed centre, you wouldn’t fill them up in one day. You start slowly, then take a deep breath and escalate over time. I think as we build more treatment centres and hopefully none of our workers fall ill because we’re going slowly, that will encourage others.”

 

And he pointed out that there would be a silver lining, of sorts, as the disease marched on. “One way to see a positive side is that it means there are more survivors with immunity. They can then be very, very valuable in going back to their communities to educate others and help, without that risk of falling sick again.”

 

Source - http://www.theguardian.com/wor...against-ebola-africa

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Castro can but a gun to the heads of Cuban doctors and force them to go.  Obama doesn't. How many US doctors do you think have any interest in going?

 

Remember that these Cuban doctors make less than US$50/month, so its not as if it is that expensive.

 

Brazil doesn't even have enough doctors to take care of their own people, so clearly have none to spare.

 

China is waiting for the population to die off and then all of those diamonds will be fully available to them. They don't care the slightest about Africans.

 

Any way despite Kari's adoration of Obama it is a known fact that black people in general and Africans in particular irritate the president.

FM
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Originally Posted by Cobra:

Cuba sent one million dollars for hurricane katrina relief and George Bush didn't accepted it. That's a shame. 

That was a stupid stunt.  Cuban hospitals are a disaster and so the money would have been better spent there.  Cubans have to send down basic supplies to their relatives in hospital.

 

FM

Cuban Doctors at the Forefront of Ebola Battle in Africa

Island Nation Outpaces Larger Countries in Sending Medical Staff; Unlikely Partner for U.S.

ByDrew Hinshaw in Freetown, Sierra Leone, and Betsy McKay in Atlanta, Updated Oct. 9, 2014 9:35 p.m. ET, Source - Wall Street Journal

 

Sierra Leone’s government welcomes the 165 Cuban health-care workers who came to fight Ebola.

Glenna Gordon for The Wall Street Journal

 

With risks growing that Ebola could flare on foreign shores, the U.S. is calling for nations to dispatch doctors and nurses to West Africa, where thousands of lives are on the line. Few have heeded the call, but one country has responded in strength: Cuba.

 

In the weeks since U.S. President Barack Obama sent the first of nearly 4,000 troops to West Africa, the struggle to quell Ebola has created odd bedfellows. Perhaps none is quite so odd as the sight of Cuban doctors joining forces with the U.S. military to combat Ebola in West Africa. Cuba has long had an antagonistic relationship with its northern neighbor, the U.S.

 

Aspiring global heavyweights China, India and Russia have done plenty of business in Africa, but their contributions to fighting the Ebola epidemic have been underwhelming thus far. And nations with some of the world’s most advanced health-care systems have come too late with too little to the crisis, said leaders from Ebola-affected countries.

 

On Thursday, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called for “at least a 20-fold surge in assistance” that includes “trained medical personnel.”

 

“The international response was slow,” said Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. On Thursday, she pleaded for more medical personnel, speaking from the capital Monrovia to a World Bank Ebola conference in Washington. “More than ever, we need qualified and dedicated staff to join the fight against Ebola.”

 

Cuba has answered that call. It has sent 165 health workers to hard-hit Sierra Leone, a disproportionately large number for a tiny island nation of 11 million people. They join cadres of medical workers in West Africa from several nations who are under the auspices of aid groups. Doctors Without Borders says it has about 250 international staff in the region and nearly 3,000 working on Ebola there overall.

 

Cuba has long played an outsize role in Africa, sending troops to battle the South African military out of Angola, and training guerrillas who joined Nelson Mandela ’s armed struggle against apartheid. In the early 1960s, Che Guevara traveled to try to foment revolt in the east of newly independent Democratic Republic of the Congo—only to find himself in the company of men he later judged more interested in plunder than global socialism.

 

“We can’t liberate by ourselves a country that does not want to fight,” he wrote back in a dispirited letter to Cuban leader Fidel Castro.

 

Instead, the Argentine-born physician-turned-revolutionary suggested Cuba send something else: doctors. Since then, Cuba has sent tens of thousands of health workers to foreign nations. The country sent 2,500 health workers to Pakistan after its 2005 earthquake, and another 1,500 to Haiti after its 2010 earthquake, said Jorge Delgado Bustillo, head of the Cuban Medical Brigade to Sierra Leone.

 

By comparison, the 165 medics here represent a cautious response.

“We work on malaria, cholera, dengue, a disaster situation, floods in Venezuela, floods in Guatemala, floods in Belize,” Mr. Bustillo said. “But Ebola? It’s a first time for the Cubans.”

 

In a speech this month, Mr. Castro appeared to be recalling Cuba’s military exploits ahead of the doctors deployment to Sierra Leone. He called them “an army of white coats,” and vowed: “Honor and glory to our valiant fighters for health and life!” according to the excerpts from the speech that appeared in the island’s state-owned Granma newspaper.

 

The Cubans play down any rivalry with the Americans. “Against Ebola, we can work with anyone,” said Mr. Bustillo. “The United States? Yes, we can.”

 

On Wednesday, the Cuban flag stretched across an entire wall in a conference center here, as doctors squirmed in their seats, waiting more than an hour for Sierra Leone’s government to officially welcome them. An Australian World Health Organization official responsible for training them on Ebola care watched in concern as the Cubans swapped hand-clasps, pats on backs and other potentially hazardous displays of physical affection. Public-health officials warn Ebola can spread on contact, with the virus carried in bodily fluids like sweat.

 

“They’re a very cuddly people,” said Katrina Roper, a technical officer with the U.N. agency. “Tomorrow will be me explaining why they have to stop shaking hands and sharing things.”

 

Secretary of State John Kerry on Wednesday exhorted more nations to send health-care workers and other forms of assistance. “We need people to step up now,” he said.

 

That the U.S. finds itself reliant on a Cold War rival underscores the lopsided humanitarian response to the Ebola epidemic. The U.S. is the biggest donor nation, having pledged to send nearly 4,000 troops and nearly $400 million in other aid. It is sending 65 U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps officers to staff an Ebola ward for health-care providers in Liberia. More than 2,600 health volunteers have signed up on a government website for possible deployment with aid organizations.

 

Africa’s biggest trading partner, China, has said it would provide $1 million in cash, $2 million in food and specialists each to Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea. The Asian giant is also sending 170 medical workers to Liberia, state-run Xinhua News Agency reported. Currently, 58 Chinese are staffing an Ebola-treatment ward and blood-testing lab off the side of a Chinese-built clinic. Of these, 35 are drivers, handymen and chefs, said Guo Tongshing, the clinic’s chief doctor.

 

India, with deep trade links and air connections to West Africa, recently pledged to contribute $12.5 million, but no medical personnel. Brazil, which has spent a decade wooing African nations across the Atlantic, has contributed about $413,000.

 

Russia, which has also sought to rekindle Cold War allies here, sent a team of eight virologists to Guinea, once a Soviet outpost, and protective clothing.

 

South Africa—a country eager to cement its leadership role on the continent—has sent a mobile lab to Sierra Leone. There is no record of any monetary contribution from the country.

 

African health workers are part of the crisis response, though. The African Union has sent about 75 medical workers, and Uganda, which has extensive experience with Ebola, has sent 15.

 

Meanwhile, Japan, the world’s third-richest economy after the U.S. and China, is sending $40 million to the cause, but no personnel. Toyota Motor Corp. 7203.TO -0.32% plans to donate cars to help transport patients.

 

Even France, the European country with the most military bases in Africa, has been slow to send in army medics. The former colonial power will construct and operate a 50-bed clinic in Guinea, staffed with 15 French medics at a given time, in addition to Red Cross volunteers, the state agency managing medical reservists said.

 

The U.K. is sending in another 750 personnel to help build the dozens of clinics needed in Liberia and Sierra Leone. The clinics are required to isolate patients from their family members and break the viral chain of transmission. But it isn’t clear who will staff those clinics.

Liberia alone needs about 10,000 qualified health-care workers, and a similar number are needed in Sierra Leone, the U.S. government has said. So far, the largest single medical brigade is from Cuba in Sierra Leone.

 

“Cuba is the only one that I know is responding with human resources in terms of health doctors and nurses,” said Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, the chairwoman for the African Union and South African President Jacob Zuma ’s ex-wife.

 

It won’t be enough, said Abdulai Baratay, a spokesman for Sierra Leone’s government: “Even though we appreciate the Cubans…we still think that with the rate at which the virus is spreading, we need more people on the ground.”

 

Governments, China’s included, complain they simply don’t have enough experience with Ebola to send in large numbers: “This is a big challenge for our scientists,” said Qian Jun, team leader for the China Center for Disease Control Mobile Laboratory Team in Sierra Leone.

 

Indeed, there was no boot- or hand-washing station at the entrance of China’s Ebola ward in Sierra Leone’s capital of Freetown, a critical safety measure. Instead, there was a family of cats living in the doorway, one sleeping on the steps.

 

“Every day our doctors, nurses, they come here on time,” said Dr. Guo, the head of the clinic. “But sometimes, the Sierra Leoneans, they don’t come.”

 

This is the void Cuba is filling. While consultants from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are lodged in Radisson Blu resort,—at more than $200 a night—the 165 Cuban medics are living three to a room in one of Freetown’s budget hotels. The hotel’s toilets are broken. Flies buzz around soiled tablecloths where the Cubans eat in cafeteria-style shifts.

 

“It’s not Sierra Leone that needs us,” said Yosvany Vera, a 36-year-old doctor working his way through a greasy plate of rice. “The world needs us.”

 

—Matina Stevis in Johannesburg, Megumi Fujikawa in Tokyo, Gregory L. White in Moscow, Carlos Tejada in Beijing, William Horobin in Paris, Paulo Trevisani in Brasilia and Gordon Fairclough in New Delhi contributed to this article.

 

Source - http://online.wsj.com/articles...in-africa-1412904212

FM
Originally Posted by Cobra:

Cuba did the right thing to send doctors to assist with this new epidemic. This put first world nation to shame.

First of all, the west has been there doing the assessment and warning these nations of the coming pandemic if they do not desist from certain practices, it killing primates and other bushmeat and mishandling them in open air markets. This is the source. Next is the necessity to practice good hygiene. The cuban doctors  are described as living in a hotel with poor sanitation, three at a room...why? Why tolerate the crap from the locals who are benefiting from their services to exist in the same miasma that produces the pandemic?

 

While the rest of the nations of the world sleep on what can become their worse nightmare, the US Is struggling. Indeed, protecting its borders is paramount. It is the first line of epidemiology, containment so what the hell is wrong with that? In the end, while the hate the US first crowd gets their shrill shrieks in, who is always there and on whom does Africa depend to stop this thing? The Chinese are not doing anything nor are the Russians or the Europeans.

 

Guyana is opening up its interior and they wanton killing of wild animals for meat should come with a warning. The coming plague always emerge from places once isolated and from creatures with little contact with humans. We are a step away from endemic cholera for example. All those open pit toilets with no protections from the floods can unleash a mass of hurt on us before we can blink. Warnings about health and sanitation need not be taken lightly. Let dirty Georgetown and the emerging habit dumping waste any place allover the country be a reminder that the disease that could be the death of us is festering and ready to lay waste the people due to our own neglect is any of these dump sites. Africa was warned, they did not listen. We need to be warned ourselves.

FM
Originally Posted by Demerara_Guy:

US_of_A faced with the first reported case on its soil and it hopelessly failed in assessing/treating the patient.

There is no cure for Ebola. The only treatment is isolation and hope that the individual can on their own win the fight. It has a 60 percent fatality over 30 days. Death is awful as the viscera disintegrates.

FM
Originally Posted by Stormborn:
Originally Posted by Demerara_Guy:

US_of_A faced with the first reported case on its soil and it hopelessly failed in assessing/treating the patient.

There is no cure for Ebola. The only treatment is isolation and hope that the individual can on their own win the fight. It has a 60 percent fatality over 30 days. Death is awful as the viscera disintegrates.

1. Incorrect as reported publicly by medical professionals in the US_of_A.

 

2. It was widely reported in news media plus personal interaction on the television of the individuals flown to the US_of_A for treatment who have recovered, as per the reports, from being affected with Ebola.

FM
Originally Posted by Demerara_Guy:
Originally Posted by Stormborn:
Originally Posted by Demerara_Guy:

US_of_A faced with the first reported case on its soil and it hopelessly failed in assessing/treating the patient.

There is no cure for Ebola. The only treatment is isolation and hope that the individual can on their own win the fight. It has a 60 percent fatality over 30 days. Death is awful as the viscera disintegrates.

1. Incorrect as reported publicly by medical professionals in the US_of_A.

 

2. It was widely reported in news media plus personal interaction on the television of the individuals flown to the US_of_A for treatment who have recovered, as per the reports, from being affected with Ebola.

Let me reiterate, the present protocol is isolation and comfort....anything else is experimental.

 

They are flown here because they can get a caring environment, be hydrated, have their fever checked, get transfusion or be put in a medical coma....none of which is available in africa.

FM
Originally Posted by Stormborn:
Originally Posted by Demerara_Guy:
Originally Posted by Stormborn:
Originally Posted by Demerara_Guy:

US_of_A faced with the first reported case on its soil and it hopelessly failed in assessing/treating the patient.

There is no cure for Ebola. The only treatment is isolation and hope that the individual can on their own win the fight. It has a 60 percent fatality over 30 days. Death is awful as the viscera disintegrates.

1. Incorrect as reported publicly by medical professionals in the US_of_A.

 

2. It was widely reported in news media plus personal interaction on the television of the individuals flown to the US_of_A for treatment who have recovered, as per the reports, from being affected with Ebola.

Let me reiterate, the present protocol is isolation and comfort....anything else is experimental.

 

They are flown here because they can get a caring environment, be hydrated, have their fever checked, get transfusion or be put in a medical coma....none of which is available in africa.

Really, Stormborn??

FM
Originally Posted by Wally:

Storm what about the experimental drug that the Americans gave the doctor that they flew back from Africa.  Is it working.

Everyone who they give it to is alive. I do not think they give it to the Liberian...at least that is the complaint. He also was not transfused with blood from one who conquered the disease to help him fight the virus.

 

There is a vaccine in final trials...it looks promising.

FM
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Originally Posted by Demerara_Guy:
Originally Posted by Stormborn:
Originally Posted by Demerara_Guy:
Originally Posted by Stormborn:
Originally Posted by Demerara_Guy:

US_of_A faced with the first reported case on its soil and it hopelessly failed in assessing/treating the patient.

There is no cure for Ebola. The only treatment is isolation and hope that the individual can on their own win the fight. It has a 60 percent fatality over 30 days. Death is awful as the viscera disintegrates.

1. Incorrect as reported publicly by medical professionals in the US_of_A.

 

2. It was widely reported in news media plus personal interaction on the television of the individuals flown to the US_of_A for treatment who have recovered, as per the reports, from being affected with Ebola.

Let me reiterate, the present protocol is isolation and comfort....anything else is experimental.

 

They are flown here because they can get a caring environment, be hydrated, have their fever checked, get transfusion or be put in a medical coma....none of which is available in africa.

Really, Stormborn??

Yes really!!!

FM
Originally Posted by Wally:

This makes me very concerned.  I am kind of on the frontlines myself. 

We are all on the front lines. It is enough to make one want to become a disaster prepper and head for the hills.

FM
Originally Posted by Stormborn:
Originally Posted by Demerara_Guy:
Originally Posted by Stormborn:
Originally Posted by Demerara_Guy:
Originally Posted by Stormborn:
Originally Posted by Demerara_Guy:

US_of_A faced with the first reported case on its soil and it hopelessly failed in assessing/treating the patient.

There is no cure for Ebola. The only treatment is isolation and hope that the individual can on their own win the fight. It has a 60 percent fatality over 30 days. Death is awful as the viscera disintegrates.

1. Incorrect as reported publicly by medical professionals in the US_of_A.

 

2. It was widely reported in news media plus personal interaction on the television of the individuals flown to the US_of_A for treatment who have recovered, as per the reports, from being affected with Ebola.

Let me reiterate, the present protocol is isolation and comfort....anything else is experimental.

 

They are flown here because they can get a caring environment, be hydrated, have their fever checked, get transfusion or be put in a medical coma....none of which is available in africa.

Really, Stormborn??

Yes really!!!

Why was the treatment was not provided to the individual from Africa? After all, the individual was in the hospital in the US_of_A.

FM
Originally Posted by Demerara_Guy:
Originally Posted by Stormborn:
Originally Posted by Demerara_Guy:
Originally Posted by Stormborn:
Originally Posted by Demerara_Guy:
Originally Posted by Stormborn:
Originally Posted by Demerara_Guy:

US_of_A faced with the first reported case on its soil and it hopelessly failed in assessing/treating the patient.

There is no cure for Ebola. The only treatment is isolation and hope that the individual can on their own win the fight. It has a 60 percent fatality over 30 days. Death is awful as the viscera disintegrates.

1. Incorrect as reported publicly by medical professionals in the US_of_A.

 

2. It was widely reported in news media plus personal interaction on the television of the individuals flown to the US_of_A for treatment who have recovered, as per the reports, from being affected with Ebola.

Let me reiterate, the present protocol is isolation and comfort....anything else is experimental.

 

They are flown here because they can get a caring environment, be hydrated, have their fever checked, get transfusion or be put in a medical coma....none of which is available in africa.

Really, Stormborn??

Yes really!!!

Why was the treatment was not provided to the individual from Africa? After all, the individual was in the hospital in the US_of_A.

I do not know what was afforded him or not. I listened to a spokesperson for the fellow's relative and they insinuated his treatment was sub par. In due time we will know.

FM
Originally Posted by Stormborn:
Originally Posted by Demerara_Guy:
Originally Posted by Stormborn:
Originally Posted by Demerara_Guy:
Originally Posted by Stormborn:
Originally Posted by Demerara_Guy:
Originally Posted by Stormborn:
Originally Posted by Demerara_Guy:

US_of_A faced with the first reported case on its soil and it hopelessly failed in assessing/treating the patient.

There is no cure for Ebola. The only treatment is isolation and hope that the individual can on their own win the fight. It has a 60 percent fatality over 30 days. Death is awful as the viscera disintegrates.

1. Incorrect as reported publicly by medical professionals in the US_of_A.

 

2. It was widely reported in news media plus personal interaction on the television of the individuals flown to the US_of_A for treatment who have recovered, as per the reports, from being affected with Ebola.

Let me reiterate, the present protocol is isolation and comfort....anything else is experimental.

 

They are flown here because they can get a caring environment, be hydrated, have their fever checked, get transfusion or be put in a medical coma....none of which is available in africa.

Really, Stormborn??

Yes really!!!

Why was the treatment was not provided to the individual from Africa? After all, the individual was in the hospital in the US_of_A.

I do not know what was afforded him or not. I listened to a spokesperson for the fellow's relative and they insinuated his treatment was sub par. In due time we will know.

Perhaps, you need to do much more research of the issues; as you stated on a tread a few minutes ago that you read before you offer opinions.

 

 

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FM
Originally Posted by Demerara_Guy:
Originally Posted by Stormborn:
Originally Posted by Demerara_Guy:
Originally Posted by Stormborn:
Originally Posted by Demerara_Guy:
Originally Posted by Stormborn:
Originally Posted by Demerara_Guy:
Originally Posted by Stormborn:
Originally Posted by Demerara_Guy:

US_of_A faced with the first reported case on its soil and it hopelessly failed in assessing/treating the patient.

There is no cure for Ebola. The only treatment is isolation and hope that the individual can on their own win the fight. It has a 60 percent fatality over 30 days. Death is awful as the viscera disintegrates.

1. Incorrect as reported publicly by medical professionals in the US_of_A.

 

2. It was widely reported in news media plus personal interaction on the television of the individuals flown to the US_of_A for treatment who have recovered, as per the reports, from being affected with Ebola.

Let me reiterate, the present protocol is isolation and comfort....anything else is experimental.

 

They are flown here because they can get a caring environment, be hydrated, have their fever checked, get transfusion or be put in a medical coma....none of which is available in africa.

Really, Stormborn??

Yes really!!!

Why was the treatment was not provided to the individual from Africa? After all, the individual was in the hospital in the US_of_A.

I do not know what was afforded him or not. I listened to a spokesperson for the fellow's relative and they insinuated his treatment was sub par. In due time we will know.

Perhaps, you need to do much more research of the issues; as you stated on a tread a few minutes ago that you read before you offer opinions.

 

 

Topic -- Despite airstrikes, ISIS forces draw nearer to Baghdad

 

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Damn you are dumb! I related what a spokes person said. That is to be vetted by those in the media and in time we will know if the treatment was maximal. I seriously doubt that is true given the gravity of the situation that it was not! You are a bloody idiot. I cannot research this issue beyond that is in the media. No one has to this point focused on refuting what she said.What is said is he did not get the experimental drug because it was not available and he did not get a transfusion because he had a rare blood type from those he would have acquired the blood.   Maybe she is an idiot like you with an addled brain and the authorities, despite public focus, did the barest minimum for the ebola patient 0 in this country!

FM
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Lie man always instructing others to do more research but he can never provide evidence to backup the lies he spews daily.

 

He spend too much of his earlier years sniffing burnham balls.

FM
Originally Posted by Stormborn:
Originally Posted by Demerara_Guy:
Originally Posted by Stormborn:
Originally Posted by Demerara_Guy:
Originally Posted by Stormborn:
Originally Posted by Demerara_Guy:
Originally Posted by Stormborn:
Originally Posted by Demerara_Guy:
Originally Posted by Stormborn:
Originally Posted by Demerara_Guy:

US_of_A faced with the first reported case on its soil and it hopelessly failed in assessing/treating the patient.

There is no cure for Ebola. The only treatment is isolation and hope that the individual can on their own win the fight. It has a 60 percent fatality over 30 days. Death is awful as the viscera disintegrates.

1. Incorrect as reported publicly by medical professionals in the US_of_A.

 

2. It was widely reported in news media plus personal interaction on the television of the individuals flown to the US_of_A for treatment who have recovered, as per the reports, from being affected with Ebola.

Let me reiterate, the present protocol is isolation and comfort....anything else is experimental.

 

They are flown here because they can get a caring environment, be hydrated, have their fever checked, get transfusion or be put in a medical coma....none of which is available in africa.

Really, Stormborn??

Yes really!!!

Why was the treatment was not provided to the individual from Africa? After all, the individual was in the hospital in the US_of_A.

I do not know what was afforded him or not. I listened to a spokesperson for the fellow's relative and they insinuated his treatment was sub par. In due time we will know.

Perhaps, you need to do much more research of the issues; as you stated on a tread a few minutes ago that you read before you offer opinions.

 

 

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Damn you are dumb! I related what a spokes person said. That is to be vetted by those in the media and in time we will know if the treatment was maximal. I seriously doubt that is true given the gravity of the situation that it was not! You are a bloody idiot. I cannot research this issue beyond that is in the media. No one has to this point focused on refuting what she said.What is said is he did not get the experimental drug because it was not available and he did not get a transfusion because he had a rare blood type from those he would have acquired the blood.   Maybe she is an idiot like you with an addled brain and the authorities, despite public focus, did the barest minimum for the ebola patient 0 in this country!

Yet another wonderful occasion for Stormborn is on a roll with the noted expressions to himself.

FM

Cuba is a small island in the Caribbean with limited resources yet they can send medical supplies to Africa. Look at those boxes/ plane in that picture.  Which other Caribbean island has the ability to do that?

FM
Originally Posted by Wally:

Horseman soon you may be saying Obama/Holder and other silver tongue Afro-saxons are paying those Cubans to go to Africa.

Don't get ahead of yourself, the cubans understand propaganda like putin very well.

 

It is like how Jagdeo knows thiefin, they don't even have to think about it.

 

Don't get caught up.

FM

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