Betty_Rose
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In addition to Duncan, nine others who "had contact" with the infamous pregnant woman are now dying.
Gosh, I thought this disease was much harder to catch than this!
It's articles like this that really do give me the willies. We're being told it is "not easy" to catch Ebola and that it can be contained here in the US, but this article describes Ebola as "highly contagious."
Where's the truth when you need it? :/
http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/06/health/ebola-liberia/index.html
Monrovia, Liberia (CNN) -- His home in Monrovia is just as he left it when he boarded the plane to the United States.
A tiny tin-roofed room in a run-down building that's now the focal point of so much of the paranoia ricocheting across the world.
But while the United States struggles to contain the fear stirred up by Thomas Eric Duncan's diagnosis in Dallas, here there's a different concern. Here, they are struggling to come to terms with the mounting death toll of all those who -- like Duncan -- came in contact with the pregnant woman who gave him Ebola.
Already nine others are dead or dying. All the neighbors have been put quarantined.
And local officials are trying to get in touch with everyone who may have interacted with the pregnant woman, Marthalene Williams.
That number?
"Right now, according to statistics that we got, close to 100," says Pewo Wolobah from the local Ebola task force.
Marthalene Williams was in her seventh month of pregnancy when she collapsed.
"We've been through this over and over," Wolobah says. "We tell the people no matter how much you love the person. It is the health authority that is responsible to pick up the sick."
But none of them knew Williams had Ebola, Tete says.
Both of Williams' parents have tested positive for Ebola.
Another woman who also ran to Williams' side was rushed to a hospital days later. Soon afterward, a neighbor was tasked with he difficult task of telling her 9-year-old daughter that mom is never coming home.
And Duncan lies in a hospital bed in Dallas, critically ill.
All of them contracted Ebola trying to do good. Helping Williams was the right thing to do -- the right thing with devastating consequences.
Gosh, I thought this disease was much harder to catch than this!
It's articles like this that really do give me the willies. We're being told it is "not easy" to catch Ebola and that it can be contained here in the US, but this article describes Ebola as "highly contagious."
Where's the truth when you need it? :/
http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/06/health/ebola-liberia/index.html
Monrovia, Liberia (CNN) -- His home in Monrovia is just as he left it when he boarded the plane to the United States.
A tiny tin-roofed room in a run-down building that's now the focal point of so much of the paranoia ricocheting across the world.
But while the United States struggles to contain the fear stirred up by Thomas Eric Duncan's diagnosis in Dallas, here there's a different concern. Here, they are struggling to come to terms with the mounting death toll of all those who -- like Duncan -- came in contact with the pregnant woman who gave him Ebola.
Already nine others are dead or dying. All the neighbors have been put quarantined.
And local officials are trying to get in touch with everyone who may have interacted with the pregnant woman, Marthalene Williams.
That number?
"Right now, according to statistics that we got, close to 100," says Pewo Wolobah from the local Ebola task force.
Marthalene Williams was in her seventh month of pregnancy when she collapsed.
"We've been through this over and over," Wolobah says. "We tell the people no matter how much you love the person. It is the health authority that is responsible to pick up the sick."
But none of them knew Williams had Ebola, Tete says.
Both of Williams' parents have tested positive for Ebola.
Another woman who also ran to Williams' side was rushed to a hospital days later. Soon afterward, a neighbor was tasked with he difficult task of telling her 9-year-old daughter that mom is never coming home.
And Duncan lies in a hospital bed in Dallas, critically ill.
All of them contracted Ebola trying to do good. Helping Williams was the right thing to do -- the right thing with devastating consequences.
