Ebola crisis: Huge risk of spread - UN's Tony Banbury
By Mark Doyle
BBC international development correspondent, in Freetown

(BBC) The head of the UN Ebola response mission in West Africa has told the BBC there is still a "huge risk" the deadly disease could spread to other parts of the world.

Tony Banbury declined to say if targets he had set in the fight against Ebola, to be achieved by Monday, had been met.

The targets were for the proportion of people being treated and for the safe burial of highly infectious bodies.

The UN boss was speaking in Freetown, one of the worst affected areas.

On Sunday in Sierra Leone's capital, bulldozers were clearing large areas for a new burial ground.

At the clearance site, near a rubbish tip, car after car was arriving with bodies, and several hundred workers were digging graves.

Full story: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-30270997


-- BBC 2014-12-01

I would think burning the bodies would be more appropriate .. or does that go against the beliefs of their invisible friend who lives in the clouds, and is really bad with money management.... might come back to bite them later on....

S.J.C

Thai think it something to fry and eat with rice.

We have the cure here in Thailand, no worries for us.

We have the cure here in Thailand, no worries for us.

555...

S.J.C

And there's me thinking the Ukraine and ISIS were the new Armageddons. Just shows, you never know what they will come up with next to get us all shaking in our shoes and ready to do anything they ask.

Baaaaaaaah! Sorry - this 'ere sheep ain't buyin' your godam bullshit.

Ebola crisis: Experts warn against complacency in fight to contain worst outbreak in history

It has been one of the biggest stories of 2014 and it does not look like it is going anywhere.

The Ebola crisis in West Africa has killed thousands of people and it will continue to do so in 2015.

Given the Ebola story has been a constant on the news for the best part of a year, some of the interest has gone. But ignoring the disease is fraught with danger.

On a US talk show recently, White House Ebola response coordinator Ron Klain warned the world against complacency.

"I think we're nearing a pivot point in this, where the number of new cases overall in West Africa has somewhat stabilized," he said.

"But this won't be done until we get all the way to zero. It's like a forest fire: a few embers burning, and the thing can reignite at any time."

A stark warning for an indiscriminate killer.

Scientists now believe the first Ebola victim was a two-year-old boy who caught the disease after playing either in or near a tree that housed a colony of bats.

From there he passed the virus onto his family and then to health workers in Guinea.

They then passed it onto their own families and thus the cycle began

More here - ABC.net.au

Burning embers comes to mind.

This has largely dropped off a lot of the news media's radar.

This has largely dropped off a lot of the news media's radar.

Yep, media shifts gears to some new and improved crisis whenever public gets burnt on the crisis du journal starts changing the channel.