The world united in removing chemical weapons from Syria, highlighted by a unanimous vote in the UN Security Council. Not a shot was fired, No child went to bed hungry due to a boycott. It is amazing what can be accomplished when the world gets united.
Obama rightly I believe wants unity in stopping ISIS but so far leaves out uniting with Syria and Iran two countries that worry about ISIS for more than the US. A peaceful solution in the Muslim world becoming one nominal state without the excesses ISIS would like could actually be conceivable.
When it comes to the world's number one disease enemy which Obama also calls on all to fight, the US is leaving out Cuba's substantial contribution to the mix. While the US calls for world unity against Ebola the military rushing in sterilization supplies and building equipment, the US ignores the fresh teams of medical personnel Cuba is sending to Sierra Leone. Fresh medical officials more than equipment is what the UN is crying for.
Trade and trial is crawling to a standstill in several African countries, only five or six victims in the US could easily spell depression for this country.
When it comes to Ebola the kind of pressure that is being applied to get the US and Iran to cooperate against ISIS might be used to try to get the US and Cuba to cooperate against the disease threat. There is a feeling in the air that unity is needed against human enemies, much more than in fighting out of control disease.
With US encouragement and likely subsidization, veteran medical personnel from the Congo who had fought past Ebola outbreaks are coming to Liberia to help out, and offer pointers in fighting the disease but being numb from exhaustion makes it hard for doctors in Liberia to internalize any advice. Healthcare workers caring for a friend with Ebola seem to have a knack for getting infected. Being treated by a non-friend in those circumstances is important, being sent to the Cuban teams for treatment would be ideal. Also no exhausted healthcare workers in the latest outbreak survived without the help of the US experimental drug Zmapp. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo's earlier outbreaks, there were heath-care worker survivors,
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The US government model of fighting Ebola, walls of high-tech protection surrounding the patient is difficult and discourages the will to survive. Also, some Africans think they are being attacked by monsters and attack back or run and hide maybe spreading the disease faster than without Western intervention. The following link is of another model, sick survivors helping the very sick in a personal face to face way. This stimulates the will to survive that helps immensely, scrawl down to Margaret McCauley,
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In earlier epidemics, especially with small pox, survivors from one epidemic helping out during the next was very important. Again the fresh and enthusiastic Cubans can be encouraged to get some of the 200 Ebola survivors to help with the sick. So far only the black market in paid survivor blood is consulting past survivors for help. Again click on the warm account of Margaret McCauley caring successfully for some sick orphan babies after unsuccessfully caring for her very sick husband, while still behind the sterilization barriers.
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Families must be housed together those with new systems caring for the very sick, with past survivors helping out all from behind the safety barricades.
This must start with fresh medical recruits rather than centers staffed by totally exhausted staff members.
If the world can't get the US and Cuba to cooperate real soon the head of Sierra Leone, President Ernest Bai Koroma, could encourage a low-tech treatment center staffed almost exclusively by those whom the hero-doctor, Dr. Sheik Umar Khan saved in his clinic before he died from Ebola. Besides saving lives he got Ebola survivors to be accepted back home by giving them a warm bear-hug in front of their surviving friends or relatives. I wonder if a survivor had slashed away then retrieved some wet bills.
Elsewhere I discussed the medical ethics of treating Americans and a British nurse first. Wondering whether the Black Market in survivor blood should be harnessed to pay survivors working with the sick, and the rampant malaria which is taxing the healthcare workers from singling in on Ebola. DDT is being sprayed locally in a haphazard fashion a professional spraying of the whole region may be less DDT in the long run. These kinds of questions can't be added to on sites that close of comments after a few days being posted..
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