Ebola quarantines violated in search of food

Written on November 6th, 2014 in politics Comments Off

Published on AlJazeera, November 5, 2014: Aid agencies say thousands being monitored for signs of Ebola in Sierra Leone are venturing out to find food.

… Kamara said that because services are not reaching them, people who are being monitored for signs of Ebola – and should be staying at home – are venturing out to markets to look for food, potentially contaminating many others.

Christian Aid’s coordinator said that with infections still on the rise, it was difficult for the government to keep up with the number of people being monitored for the disease. “The number is just rising exponentially,” she said. “The speed with which we have to have such a robust system of planning and coordination” is too fast.

Earlier in the week, the Disasters Emergency Committee, an umbrella organisation for aid agencies, said that quarantines, designed to control the spread of Ebola, were having a devastating effect on the country’s economy.

“The quarantine of Kenema, the third largest town in Sierra Leone, is having a devastating impact on trade – travel is restricted so trucks carrying food cannot freely drive around,” the committee said in a statement. “Food is becoming scarce, which has led to prices increasing beyond the reach of ordinary people.” Large swaths of the West African country have been sealed off to prevent the spread of Ebola, and within those areas many people have been ordered to stay in their homes. The government, with help from the UN’s World Food Programme, is tasked with delivering food and other services to those people … //

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Links:

NASA: Major droughts threatens food supply, global security, on Russia Today RT, Nov 5, 2014;

Ron Paul: 2-party US political system in reality a monopoly, on Russia Today RT, Nov 5, 2014;

New warnings of war in Asia, on World Socialist Web Site WSWS, by Peter Symonds, Nov 5, 2014;

Undocumented immigrants make up 10 percent of California’s workforce, on World Socialist Web Site WSWS, by Norisa Diaz, Nov 5, 2014;

Full employment: The recovery’s missing ingredient, on ZNet (first on The Washington Post), by Jared Bernstein and Dean Baker, Nov 5, 2014;

Liberating a village formerly controlled by the Islamic State, on The Washington Post, by Nicole Crowder, Nov 4, 2014 (all photos by Erin Trieb for The Washington Post);

Protecting our Children in the Wake of Sandy Hook – Psychiatric Surveillance of US Public School Children, on Global Research.ca, by Prof. James F. Tracy, Nov 04, 2014: Using the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre as its justification, the Obama administration has recently given the psychiatric business and pharmaceutical industry a major gift by quietly introducing a behavioral and mental health program in public schools throughout the United States …;

Another Wonder Drug Isn’t So Great Once It Goes Off Patent, on Dissident Voice, by Martha Rosenberg, Nov 4, 2014;

Washington-backed “Rebels” Surrender US Arms to Al Qaeda in Syria, on Global Research.ca (first on WSWS), by Vill Van Auken, Nov 4, 2014;

Germany’s New Right: The Unholy Alliance of Neo-Nazis and Football Hooligans – part 1, on Spiegel Online International, by staff, Nov 4, 2014 (Photo Gallery – The Cologne Conflagration: … some 4,800 demonstrators, hooligans and right-wing extremists took part in the Cologne march on October 26. Only 1,300 police were on hand to control them …): The riots in Cologne at the end of October show there is a new danger on Germany’s extremist right. Neo-Nazis and football hooligans have teamed up to go after Islamist Salafists … ; Part 2: Germany for the Germans, Foreigners Out;

A Tea Party Hosted by Big Oil, on OpEdNews, by Jill Jackson, Nov 4, 2014;

Empire or Republic: Imperial Wars, Scaremongering and the Ebola Epidemic, on Global Research.ca, by Prof. James Petras, Nov 3, 2014: … all in all the US spent $3.5 trillion for military invasions over 6 years …;

California drought may leave entire communities with no water in 2 months, on Russia Today RT, Sept 30, 2014;

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