This video from Liberia is so poignant.

[Mojorabbit]

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/17/world/africa/because-of-ebola-ambulance-work-in-liberia-is-a-busy-and-lonely-business.html

[uppityperson]

1. k&r. "we cannot do more than what we can do". And people with other health problems are dying from

things that would be survivable if there were hospital beds for them. Unless they can prove they don't have ebola, they often won't get admitted. Home, to die, for way too many people.

Donate.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025684625

[Mojorabbit]

2. This man is a true hero. I don't know

how he does it day in and day out.

[uppityperson]

3. I can not imagine his burn out factor. He is a hero.

[riderinthestorm]

4. K&R nt

[malaise]

5. K & R

Too sad

[Skittles]

6. I made a Kiva donation to a woman in Liberia

I keep thinking about her and hoping she is OK

[Mojorabbit]

7. And reading the new england journal of medicine today

it does not look like it will get better soon.
"Notwithstanding the geographic variation in case incidence within and among Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone, the current epidemiologic outlook is bleak. Forward projections suggest that unless control measures — including improvements in contact tracing, adequate case isolation, increased capacity for clinical management, safe burials, greater community engagement, and support from international partners — improve quickly, these three countries will soon be reporting thousands of cases and deaths each week, projections that are similar to those of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Experimental therapeutics and vaccines offer promise for the future but are unlikely to be available in the quantities needed to make a substantial difference in control efforts for many months, even if they are proved to be safe and effective. Furthermore, careful assessment of the most effective means of utilizing such interventions (e.g., vaccination or treatment of contacts versus health care workers) will be required while stocks remain limited. For the medium term, at least, we must therefore face the possibility that EVD will become endemic among the human population of West Africa, a prospect that has never previously been contemplated. The risk of continued epidemic expansion and the prospect of endemic EVD in West Africa call for the most forceful implementation of present control measures and for the rapid development and deployment of new drugs and vaccines.
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1411100#t=articleDiscussion

It is heartbreaking.