Ebola cases near 16,000, Sierra Leone to overtake Liberia soon with most cases: WHO

[TorchTheWitch]

http://news.yahoo.com/ebola-cases-near-16-000-sierra-leone-overtake-171705005.html

GENEVA (Reuters) - The death toll in the world's worst Ebola epidemic has risen to 5,689 out of 15,935 cases reported in eight countries by Nov. 23, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday.

Almost all cases and all but 15 deaths have been in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia - the three hardest-hit countries, which reported 600 new cases in the past week, the WHO said in its latest update.

"The total number of cases reported in Sierra Leone since the outbreak began will soon eclipse the number reported from Liberia," it said. The former British colony has reported 6,599 cases against 7,168 in Liberia.

Transmission of the virus remains intense in Sierra Leone, especially in the west and north, with the capital Freetown still the worst affected area, it said.

Sierra Leone appealed to the United States on Wednesday to send military aid to help it battle Ebola as it falls behind its West African neighbors Guinea and Liberia in the fight against the virus.

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Even worse than was predicted.

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Just how is it that no one cares about this? There's been practically nothing in the news once the US had no more cases.

Whatever happened to Obama saying that he wanted 6 billion dollars to fight Ebola in West Africa? What, if anything, is going on with that? Do we still have any of our troops still helping there or have they all quietly left now that no one is paying attention anymore?

How is it that the collective DU has nothing to say about a deadly plague wiping out thousands and thousands of poor black people? And a level of poor that makes American poor seem like they live like kings.

How utterly ironic the cries of racism here about the shooting on one black teenager that evidence now publicly available proves show absolutely no racism (don't even try to claim there was when refusing to look at the grand jury evidence and when the very people most effected by the incident have never once and still don't say one single thing about race as even a factor much less a motivation) yet utterly ignore the massive hideous deaths of epically poor black people by thousands and thousands that have no even marginally decent medical care, live stacked up like cord wood in shacks and feel blessed they have a roof of scrap metal or shrubbery to keep off the rain.

What, ghastly poor uneducated West African black people forced to live in utter squaller and filth dying by horrifying numbers while the entire civilized world turns their back on them are ignored and somehow this isn't racist? Who cares about THOSE black people, is that it? Even all those weeks that Ebola was a hot topic here most of the posts were taunting about how benign it was while only a handful of people here cared a wit about the West African horror. These people somehow don't "count" because they're black people in West Africa??? They aren't even worth thinking about or even kicking the occasional thread about this unbelievable ongoing tragedy?

And THANK YOU uppityperson for still giving a shit and trying to interject some teeny spark of at least awareness here when there's actually some kid of mention in the media about it even knowing that your posts sink like rocks with barely any notice. I don't know how you bear it.

[etherealtruth]

1. As I have posted before: This is a case where we need to fight it "over there" ...

... so we don't have to fight it here.

Actually, my beliefs are not purely so self interested ... I honestly believe we need to fight human suffering where ever it occurs simply because it IS human suffering!