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Sierra Leone Medical Team attacked

Sun, 2014-09-21 09:22 — mike kraft

By Umaru and Fofana

FREETOWN, Sun Sep 21, 2014 Reuters

1 of 2. Medical staff working with Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF) prepare to bring food to patients kept in an isolation area at the MSF Ebola treatment centre in Kailahun July 20, 2014.

Credit: Reuters/Tommy Trenchard

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Sierra Leone burial team attacked despite lockdown | Reuters

Sat, 2014-09-20 19:58 — mike kraft

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Sierra Leone burial team attacked despite lockdown
By Umaru Fofana

FREETOWN Sat Sep 20, 2014 6:10pm EDT

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An empty street is seen at the start of a three-day national lockdown in Freetown September 19, 2014.

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Inside An Ebola Kit: A Little Chlorine And A Lot Of Hope

Sat, 2014-09-20 12:17 — mike kraft

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September 19, 2014 4:15 PM ET

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Detailed NY Times story on Sierra Leone lockdown aftermath

Sat, 2014-09-20 11:52 — mike kraft

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by ADAM NOSSITER SEPT. 19, 2014

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Fight against Ebola is grossly underfunded

Sat, 2014-09-20 11:30 — Norea

phot from CNN Sep 20, 2014 - by Q13 FOX News Staff

NEW YORK — The Ebola virus has already killed thousands in West Africa, an immeasurable loss for many families. As medical workers try to quell its spread, global organizations are calculating the economic impact of the disease.

“Their economies are basically being devastated,” said Daniel Epstein, a spokesperson for the World Health Organization. “Economic activity has halted in many areas there. The harvest isn’t going on. People can’t fly in and fly out.”

WHO workers even had difficulty flying into the Ebola-stricken nations of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, Epstein said.

http://q13fox.com/2014/09/20/fight-against-ebola-is-grossly-underfunded/

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With Ebola crippling the health system, Liberians die of routine medical problems

Sat, 2014-09-20 11:21 — Norea

By Lenny Bernstein - Sep 20 2014 - washingtonpost.com

MONROVIA, Liberia — While the terrifying spread of Ebola has captured the world’s attention, it also has produced a lesser-known crisis: the near-collapse of the already fragile health-care system here, a development that may be as dangerous — for now — as the virus for the average Liberian.

Western experts said that people here are dying of preventable or treatable conditions such as malaria, diarrhea, pneumonia and the effects of high blood pressure and diabetes, such as strokes. Where services do exist, Ebola has complicated the effort to provide them by stoking fear among health-care workers, who sometimes turn away sick people or women in labor if they can’t determine whether the patient is infected. And some people, health-care workers said, will not seek care, fearful that they will become infected with Ebola at a clinic or hospital.

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Fw: Leaked CDC draft report estates 500,000 Ebola victims by the end of January -_Washington Post

Sat, 2014-09-20 11:02 — mike kraft

More disturbing projections in leaked estimate scheduled to be released next week –Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/ebola-could-infect-500000-by-end-of-january-according-to-tentative-cdc-projection/2014/09/19/c7585bf8-402e-11e4-b0ea-8141703bbf6f_story.html

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Fw: Leaked CDC draft report estates 500,000 Ebola victims by the end of January -_Washington Post

Sat, 2014-09-20 11:02 — mike kraft

More disturbing projections in leaked estimate scheduled to be released next week –Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/ebola-could-infect-500000-by-end-of-january-according-to-tentative-cdc-projection/2014/09/19/c7585bf8-402e-11e4-b0ea-8141703bbf6f_story.html

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Fw: Leaked CDC draft report estates 500,000 Ebola victims by the end of January -_Washington Post

Sat, 2014-09-20 11:02 — mike kraft

More disturbing projections in leaked estimate scheduled to be released next week –Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/ebola-could-infect-500000-by-end-of-january-according-to-tentative-cdc-projection/2014/09/19/c7585bf8-402e-11e4-b0ea-8141703bbf6f_story.html

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Upcoming CDC estimate reportedly predicts up to 500,000 Ebola victims - Leaked

Sat, 2014-09-20 10:39 — mike kraft

Washington Post, September 20

By Lena H. Sun

The Ebola epidemic sweeping West Africa could infect up to 500,000 people by the end of January, according to a new estimate under development by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The report is scheduled to be released next week, but work on it is still ongoing and projections could change, said a person who is familiar with its contents but was not authorized to speak because the report is not yet public.