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You knew this was coming: trying to quarantine Ebola is RACIST

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Attempting to quarantine any Ebola-ridden country in West Africa can now be quantified as racist.

From AmericanThinker.com:

Dr. Margaret Chan, the World Health Organization director-general, has said that disruptions in commercial air travel to West Africa would impede the efforts of international health organizations to contain and combat the disease.

“We must be careful not to characterize Ebola as an African disease,” she said in a  teleconference on September 3, warning that the stigmatization of the disease with any racial classification would be detrimental to the U.N. effort to control it.  “This is an international issue, a global threat.  We need to make sure Ebola patients and Ebola-affected countries aren’t stigmatized and isolated.”

We must be careful not to characterize Ebola as an African disease except that it is an African disease.  And, of course, you should never isolate Ebola victims.

Just when you thought things couldn’t get more stupid, there dawns a brand new day.

BZ

 

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One plane, one trip, another continent

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Ebola VirusI’ve said: this is all it would take.  Discovered yesterday in Mali.

And it has now occurred.

Were the tests accurate?

You’d best hope so, with every fibre of your being.

BZ

 

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Ebola outbreak spreads panic in West Afric

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From USAToday.com:

DAKAR, Senegal — The rising death toll in West Africa’s Ebola outbreak has sparked fear across the region with at least 80 already having died from the nearly always fatal virus.

“Every day we’re reading about it in the newspaper, hearing about it on the radio, and wondering when it’s going to come here,” said 32-year-old Mossa Bau, who lives in Dakar, Senegal. “Everyone is very scared because, really, it’s a dangerous disease and no one has the means to stop it.”

The World Health Organization says that as many as 125 people across three countries are now believed to have contracted the highly contagious disease. Senegal shut its border with Guinea, where the outbreak is believed to have originated, in the hopes of keeping the disease from spreading its way.

Guinea and LiberiaGuinea shares borders, as you can see, with Guinea-Bissau, Senegal, Mali, Ivory Coast, Liberia and Sierra Leone.  These borders should likely be shut, I would suggest.

This is the first time an Ebola outbreak has occurred in West Africa. Countries in central Africa, such as Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, where the virus is endemic, typically see outbreaks every two to three years.

The WHO needs to ensure that the virus is not transported to another continent.

BZ

 

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