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While people in the USA freak out about 1 case, here is what is happening elsewhere. Yes, there is concern, should be concern, about it spreading further and yes, the system in the USA did not work well enough.
But.
Money. People. Resources. Defense of all of those. Not enough of any of those has been made available. 375 hospital beds in the country of Sierra Leone. 765 new cases last week.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/02/ebola-infecting-five-every-hour-sierra-leone
The figures from Save the Children showed there were 765 new cases last week in the west African country alone, but only 327 hospital beds to treat infected patients. The charity said the terrifying rate of the spread of the disease was outstripping medical supplies and threatened a breakdown of Sierra Leones already fragile health system.
The rate of spread of the deadly virus is projected to double to 10 people an hour in the country before the end of October, Save the Children said.
The UN said the spread of the disease in neighbouring Liberia was just as alarming and called for a massive international response to prevent the outbreak wreaking havoc in west Africa and beyond. Speaking from Liberia, Anthony Banbury, the head of a new UN Mission for Ebola Emergency Response, said: It is fairly similar in Liberia. The disease is spreading very rapidly cases doubling every 20 days....
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2014/10/02/aid-organizations-are-desperate-for-help-with-ebola-as-death-toll-surges-past-3300/
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Aid is now on its way from several countries, including the United States, which has dispatched a military unit to Liberia to build hospitals and coordinate the logistics of delivering aid to workers on the ground. The British government has also pledged a 700-bed hospital in Sierra Leone. But the impact of these efforts may not be felt for weeks or months.
Meanwhile, the current rate of transmission and deaths continues to grow rapidly.
In London, representatives from 20 different countries, including the U.S., France, Japan and Australia, are gathering Thursday for an Ebola Donors Conference to discuss the international response to the crisis, according to the BBC.
Skittles
(153,193 posts)that is why people freak out
TheVisitor
(173 posts)uppityperson
(115,679 posts)Of course our population is larger by a whole lot, but still.
still_one
(92,394 posts)That health officials have been trying to impress on the people. One of the biggest problems is families are having difficulty because they cannot deal with deceased in a traditional manner, and that has caused many problems
uppityperson
(115,679 posts)of stopping this.