Posted on 10/17/2014 3:46:32 PM PDT by knak
UN health agency acknowledged nearly everyone involved in the response failed to see some fairly plain writing on the wall
The World Health Organisation has admitted mishandling the early stages of the Ebola outbreak in west Africa, saying it failed to recognise the risks of the disease in the fragile states of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
Nearly everyone involved in the outbreak response failed to see some fairly plain writing on the wall, says a draft internal document obtained by the Associated Press. Experts should have realised that the conventional way of containing an Ebola outbreak would not work in a region with porous borders and broken health systems.
WHOs appointment system in Africa is also criticised in the document. Heads of WHO country offices in Africa are politically motivated appointments made by the WHO regional director for Africa, Dr Luis Sambo, who does not answer to the agencys chief in Geneva, Dr Margaret Chan, it said. As Peter Piot, director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine told the Guardian last week: What should be [the] WHOs strongest regional office because of the enormity of the health challenges, is actually the weakest technically, and full of political appointees.
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I guess in the next installment they’ll tell us how much money they need to correct the problem.
Your guess is golden.
The evening news gave some numbers for the CDC. Hold onto your seat. $29 BBBBBillion since 2003. They haven’t cured cancer or the common cold. One of the doctors has been so strapped for $$$$$ that he’s been working for 40 years for an Ebola vaccine. Good thing he’s been employed by the government or he’d have been out on the streets for nonproductivity in a private company.
BTW, evening news just said not to be within 15 feet of someone with the flu. Yet, der leader says it’s fine to ride a bus with someone with Ebola.
Obama, king of the world and hater of the United States probably already has the blank check written.
Please call congress and tell them that we must be deadly serious about containing Ebola by strict quarantine within the United States and from infected nations. This is our right and our duty and it is THEIR duty to protect US.
Capitol switchboard is 202-224-3121 or Google your congressman or senator and get his contact information and call him / her office directly. You can also call or go to their local offices.
I believe decisive response is urgent because you cant put this Ebola genie back in the bottle once it gets out. It is a fire, it consumes all the fuel it can get and the fuel is people. The only way to stop a fire is to block it from the fuel or cool it with water. A vaccine or medicine to treat Ebola would be the water and we dont have reliable, enough or any.
Every possible measure must be taken to stop the spread before draconian measures are imposed. What is being done now is sloppy. We are walking a dangerous road. The threat is blossoming by the day if not hour. Almost every hour there is some new Ebola development and none of them are good. This is a serious and potentially deadly event. Unchecked it could destroy or weaken the United States and facilitate our destruction by others. It has that potential for every country and that is why so many are responding with such strict quarantines. These consequences, no matter how small the probabilities, demand a full effort and significant response.
Ebola is being spread here in the United States right now. First Texas, then Ohio then? Terror is an excellent weapon. It disrupts, confuses, paralyzes and destroys a society. Many others and we on FR have speculated that terrorists may spread Ebola. How do you that remember 9/11 feel right now compared to what you felt then? Do you want to gather your loved ones near you to protect them? I do. Even more than I did on September 11, 2001! Isnt this passive response by this administration accomplishing the very same things a terrorist would want?
When something is being done that makes as little sense as what Obama is doing there has to be some other reason. I leave it to you dear reader to draw your own conclusions as to the reasons.
What is happening now is insane. It makes no sense at all. For example the head of CDC says: Stopping travel from Africa wont do any good because you have to get people into Africa to fight Ebola. You cant get Ebola from an infected person on a bus but an infected person should never be on a bus because he can infect others. Blocking travel from infected countries would damage their fragile economies. What about ours? What about our safety? What about resources we have paid for that should be protecting us?
Even the most despotic dictatorship in Africa has acted to protect his nation by strict quarantine and stopping travel from infected countries. Even CDC, the UN and WHO advocate and credit strict quarantine for nipping the spread of Ebola in the bud at the source in places like Senegal and Nigeria where both have had faster and more successful outbreak controls than we have had here. 35 countries have stopped travel of people from infected West African countries. It is so obvious even a child could understand it so why is it OK for people from infected countries to travel here?
I will post this message and keep posting it until someone stops me.
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Let’s recall that the WHO is the one who jumps in on these things where ever they are. So when we think of the Western African nations, what comes to mind? Obviously, we have the WHO trying to stick it’s now in the EBOLA management tent, right long with the United Nations.
So what has taken place over the last few months, is these two agencies directing things as they saw fit. And now here we are with thousands of cases in Western Africa, and spreading outward.
Along come Western Nations who wish to close of their border to entry by people from the most infected nations, and these two agencies attempt to explain why that isn’t wise.
Is anyone listening to these two agencies any longer? Well, they shouldn’t be.
Clowns playing with Ebola. Not a good thing.
But in spite of the minor set backs and thousands of deaths, bonuses will be paid on time again this year.
And we have just repeated those mistakes here in the USA. Is there no ability to learn from the mistakes of others? Do we have to repeat them??
Is there anyone of intelligence in charge anywhere?
You don’t get a second chance with lives on the line. Disband...
Isn't that racist? Or only when Americans use the name?
So, now we are treated to the CDC, NIH, and WHO as totally incompetent organizations. Organizations that command big bucks, stratospheric salaries, and unwarranted respect and influence. What could possibly go wrong...other than a plague to make the Black Death look like a bad Monty Python skit? That is not a pleasant thought...millions infected and dying horrible deaths.
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