World, you still just don't get it. The Ebola epidemic that is raging across West Africa, killing more than half its victims, will not be conquered with principles of global solidarity and earnest appeals. It will not be stopped with dribbling funds, dozens of volunteer health workers, and barriers across national borders. And the current laboratory-confirmed tolls (3,944 cases, with 2,097 deaths) will soon rise exponentially.

To understand the scale of response the world must mount in order to stop Ebola's march across Africa (and perhaps other continents), the world community needs to immediately consider the humanitarian efforts following the 2004 tsunami and its devastation of Aceh, Indonesia. The U.S. and Singaporean militaries launched their largest rescue missions in history: The United States alone put 12,600 military personnel to a rescue and recovery mission, including the deployment of nearly the entire Pacific fleet, 48 helicopters, and every Navy hospital ship in the region. The World Bank estimated that some $5 billion in direct aid was poured into the countries hard hit by the tsunami, and millions more were raised from private donors all over the world. And when the dust settled and reconstruction commenced, the affected countries still cried out for more.


the fact is.... PEOPLE DON'T CARE!

just noting an article.... anyway if this article has any truth to it... they won't stay for long

that is a doom's day scenario that does not place efforts already in place into the equation. p.s. the curfew in liberia has been due to community ownership of this fight. We will be back here in a couple of months speaking about this disease.

meanwhile...

yeap... all hands on deck.

hehehe... west point hawana shida ya njaa... that country is as green as green as it gets plus west point is just next to the sea! shida ni 'nyama' ndio hawana. the people with food security issues are more those in drier parts of africa and are 'land locked'..... more like north eastern or hapa kitui? our geography in east africa disadvantages us since most of our population lives in the hinterland. in most places people from the hinterland (aka bara) are the poor unexposed people.... REFLECT

and so bats,snakes,cats,mice,dog and gorillas become delicacies...