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UN Peacekeeper in Liberia Tests Positive for Ebola
ABC News ^ | Dec 5, 2014, 7:57 AM ET | By JONATHAN PAYE-LAYLEH and MIKE CORDER Associated Press

Posted on 12/05/2014 6:54:13 AM PST by 11th_VA

A U.N. peacekeeper who contracted Ebola in Liberia will be flown to the Netherlands for treatment, a Dutch Health Ministry spokeswoman said Friday.

The Nigerian soldier will go into isolation at a "calamity unit" at the University Medical Center Utrecht, according to Inge Freriksen. He is expected to arrive in Amsterdam over the weekend and be transferred by ambulance to nearby Utrecht.

Late Thursday, the U.N. mission announced that the soldier had tested positive for the dreaded disease a day earlier.

The Ebola outbreak has sickened nearly 17,300 people, mostly in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. Of those, about 6,100 have died.

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The infection of the U.N. peacekeeper is the third case among mission personnel, according to Karin Landgren, the top U.N. envoy in the country. The previous two died.

The mission has so far identified 16 people who came into contact with the soldier, and they have been quarantined, she said. Areas the peacekeeper visited while symptomatic have been decontaminated.

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TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ebola; liberia; netherlands; nigeria; peacekeeper; un; unpeacekeeper; utrecht
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1 posted on 12/05/2014 6:54:13 AM PST by 11th_VA
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To: 11th_VA

Obozo didn’t ship him here?


2 posted on 12/05/2014 6:57:10 AM PST by rainee (Her)
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To: 11th_VA
a "calamity unit"

I like it. It has a ring to it. Though I would like to see a Pandelerium Unit someplace.

3 posted on 12/05/2014 6:58:40 AM PST by Gamecock (Joel Osteen is a preacher of the Gospel like Colonel Sanders is an Army officer.)
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To: 11th_VA

This “ain’t” over ‘til its over!


4 posted on 12/05/2014 7:02:09 AM PST by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: Gamecock
a "calamity unit"

Sounds more like a phrase from a Monty Python sketch...

5 posted on 12/05/2014 7:31:31 AM PST by gov_bean_ counter (Romans 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools)
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To: 2ndreconmarine; Fitzcarraldo; Covenantor; Mother Abigail; EBH; Dog Gone; ...
Ping...

A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread

6 posted on 12/05/2014 11:03:45 PM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Smokin' Joe

Thanks for the ping!


7 posted on 12/06/2014 10:30:07 AM PST by Alamo-Girl
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To: Smokin' Joe

I would love to know what the heck this Ebola Czar even did?
https://fortune.com/2014/12/06/so-long-ebola-czar/


8 posted on 12/06/2014 2:22:35 PM PST by machogirl
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To: machogirl
Just what he was supposed to do. Suppress information and do a damage control cleanup in time for the mid-terms so the masses would lose track of the disease in the short attention span news cycle. When AP stopped reporting suspected cases and the numbers being monitored, the story went off the front page and the administration's "We got this" attitude seemed justified.

It's still out there, and with no more vigilance than we've been seeing in airports, etc., it will be here again, if it isn't now. We just won't hear about it.

For him, that's "Mission Accomplished".

It is all about image, not substance.

9 posted on 12/06/2014 8:26:21 PM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Smokin' Joe

I wonder “what” he got paid?


10 posted on 12/07/2014 4:11:25 AM PST by machogirl
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To: machogirl

Hard to say, but no check is worth it if you don’t get to cash it.


11 posted on 12/07/2014 4:54:37 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Smokin' Joe

that is true


12 posted on 12/07/2014 5:23:08 AM PST by machogirl
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