This time, it was in the small town of Mongbwalu — last time, on Wednesday night, it was in Rwampara. But locals (driven by misinformation from pulpits, mostly) are attacking and burning Doctors Without Borders’ Ebola treatment / isolation tent facilities — having been convinced that the virus is a hoax, and that “divine healing” is all the afflicted need. Damn.
All the while, USAID is nowhere to be found. This is already the third worst Ebola outbreak in recorded history — and may ultimately reach over 1,000 deaths — before it is all over. Here’s the latest, from CBS.com:
…Angry residents of a town at the epicenter of the Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo attacked and burned a tent that was part of a health center where people are being treated for the virus, the staff there said Saturday. It was the second such attack in the region in a week.
No one was hurt in the attack, according to initial reports but as patients ran out to escape the fire, 18 people with suspected Ebola infections left the facility and are now unaccounted for, a local hospital director said.
The angry residents had arrived at the clinic in the town of Mongbwalu on Friday night and set fire to a tent set up for suspected and confirmed Ebola cases by the Doctors Without Borders humanitarian group, Dr. Richard Lokudi, director of the Mongbwalu hospital, told The Associated Press….
In the mean time, a US citizen / medical doctor who is gravely ill with Ebola (he apparently operated on a patient later found to be suffering from Ebola, as a part of his missionary / medical work) has been refused the right to return to the States, to a CDC approved treatment center / isolation unit… by the Trump [Mal-]administration.
Thankfully, the Germans agreed to take him in. And so, he has to be flown to Germany, where he is receiving excellent care in Berlin. What is wrong with the goons manipulating Trump’s irrational fears? We built these US treatment / containment centers for just this sort of an outbreak, in 2016. Damn.
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