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This article well explains some of the reason ebola has continued to spread. Yes, there are serious questions for the hospital the man in Dallas went to, but this also might help explain why it hopefully will not become so bad here. It sounds awful, what is happening, and we are lucky to live in countries with more resources available for care.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/02/world/africa/ebola-spreading-in-west-africa.html?_r=0
The other patients, normally padlocked inside, were too sick to look up as the body was hauled away. Nurses, some not wearing gloves and others in street clothes, clustered by the door as pools of the patients bodily fluids spread to the threshold. A worker kicked another man on the floor to see if he was still alive. The mans foot moved and the team kept going. It was 1:30 in the afternoon.
In the next ward, a 4-year-old girl lay on the floor in urine, motionless, bleeding from her mouth, her eyes open. A corpse lay in the corner a young woman, legs akimbo, who had died overnight. A small child stood in a cot watching as the team took the body away, stepping around a little boy lying immobile next to black buckets of vomit. They sprayed the body, and the little girl on the floor, with chlorine as they left.
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But little of that help has reached this city. The dead, the gravely ill, those who are vomiting or have diarrhea, are placed among patients who have not yet been confirmed as Ebola victims there is not even a laboratory here to test them. At one of the three holding centers in Makeni, dazed Ebola patients linger outside, close to health workers and soldiers guarding them. The risk of infection is high, the precautions minimal.
dembotoz
(16,784 posts)sad
uppityperson
(115,677 posts)fears here.
Warpy
(111,124 posts)In fact, hospitals there are places only people sick with bacterial and parasitic infections can expect to be cured and surgeries performed by a surgeon who often covers several hospitals.
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uppityperson
(115,677 posts)your family care for you. Poor families, stuck between the awful and awfuler.
Laxman
(2,419 posts)is a bit different in reality in Sierra Leone than what our reality is here in the U.S. Frontline did a show on the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone earlier this month that you can watch here: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/ebola-outbreak/ It's sobering and makes it clear what is going on and why the outbreak is so severe. Seeing the actual conditions there is really frightening.
uppityperson
(115,677 posts)It is a very different place, facilities, culture, belief system, etc etc etc.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/inside-frontline/inside-the-ebola-outbreak/
Warpy
(111,124 posts)That's what extreme poverty is all about, the lack of infrastructure as well as the lack of personal income.
Catherine Vincent
(34,486 posts)Avalux
(35,015 posts)That's the dilemma. As time goes on, and the epidemic spreads, containing it becomes more and more difficult. When the WHO says they underestimated what they were up against, this is why.