WHO Worker Ebola Infections Mount: Sierra Leone Lab Shut, Senegal Doctor Flown To Hamburg

Posted on August 27, 2014 by DRenegade

There is reason to be concerned “about whether the proposed resources would be adequate,” warns a Harvard professor as the World Health Organization ‘battle strategy’ draft calls for more than $430 million to bring the worst Ebola outbreak on record under control. This morning we hear of yet another health worker infected – and being flown home to Hamburg for treatment from Sengal and the WHO has shut a lab in Sierra Leone after health workers became infected. A glimpse at the following 3 charts should have the entire world throwing money at at them…

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fjord
fjord
10 years ago

It’s kind of amazing that we haven’t had an extinction level event of the microscopic flavor in our era.
The Spanish influenza of 1917 was really the last epidemiological event -- which explains the reactions when the H1N5 became transmissible to humans directly from birds.

Of course, there’s always the possibilty that this ebola outbreak is DUE to man’s intervention (cough, weaponized, cough) which wouldn’t surprise me at all.

I’m sure there’s plenty of trigger happy people who’d like to get to work in the apocalypse after the apocalypse.