That's it, Ebola is now will soon be a thing of the past

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Ebola threatens chocolate
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http://www.politico.com/story/2014/10/ebola-chocolate-industry-africa-effects-111809.html

[orleans]

1. what does this mean???

TRICK OR TREAT!!

[KamaAina]

4. Cote d'Ivoire in particular hosts many migrant workers from Liberia and Guinea

to pick the cacao beans. Naturally, in the face of Ebola, it has closed its borders with those countries, possibly leading to a labor shortage.

[LynneSin]

8. but they can easily get migrants from other countries where there isn't a problem

Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa and also did an amazing job containing the spread of Ebola. They have already passed their 21 day period of no new infections (Sept 26) and close to hitting 42 days when the problem can be considered clear.

My guess is at this time the probably will not bring in workers from infected countries unless they know they are of good health.

[ohnoyoudidnt]

2. That's it Ebola!

Now you've gone too far.

[Chan790]

3. I'm not sure it'll make a difference.

That's also the gold coast of Africa and its impediment to the gold trade doesn't seem to be motivating anybody to deal with the Ebola crisis faster. Gold, not only a precious metal, but also having major industrial uses is way more important to global economies than cocoa.

[shenmue]

5. 59% of cocoa from just three countries?!

[magical thyme]

6. I've already laid in a multi-year supply of unsweetened cocoa

I'm prepared to hunker down and outlast the global pandemic.

If I go down, they'll have to pry my homemade fudge out of my hands, dammit!

[LynneSin]

7. Thats kinda a bullcrap story

Most of the countries bordering the 3 countries with the outbreak have pretty much shutdown their borders next to those countries with major outbreaks (Guinea, Siera Leone, Liberia) I read where Nigeria isolated their few cases of Ebola to ensure no one else got infected to ensure that stopped in it's tracked right then and there. And to be fair Senegal only had to have 1 person infected to shut down it's border with Guinea so why they made that an orange country makes no sense. That one case was about a month ago so it probably shouldn't even be called out in the map.

So why would there be an issue with getting Cocoa from Côte d’Ivoire (which is hectically the name of Ivory Coast - again bad Journalism from Politico, which surprises me), Ghana or Nigeria makes no sense. It's kinda like those dumbass mouthpieces that says Ebola is going to get into our country because of the illegal immigrants crossing the border at Mexico. Just makes you scratch your head and wonder who sat around at a desk and thought up that crazy idea.