Sierra Leone: another top doctor dies of ebola
The ebola news has been quiet since the flare-up in the US has died down.
But ebola’s destructive power goes on.
Note that Dr. Willoughby died after treating a patient who was not known to have ebola, but who later was diagnosed with the disease. This is another indication of the fact that sometimes ebola is quite contagious before it is even recognizable as ebola.
In the US, because there were very few cases, this phenomenon was not at all obvious. But in countries such as Sierra Leone, where the disease is endemic, a certain percentage of cases will be of this hard-to-recognize variety, and that helps spread the illness.
Barry’s czar sure did get this topic out of the news. And no one will bother to point out that the vaccine being tested because Cheney pushed for research funding.
Due to a respectful and heartfelt request to not use what she felt a hurtful and inaccurate term of reference for her, I just want to say EBOLA NURSE!!!!
I was mildly curious as to why Time choose one specific doctor put off oodles to be the face of its “Person/People of the Year,” the doctors fighting Ebola. I mean, they could’ve gone with the usual unidentifiable photo of a doctor PPE-ed from bottom to noggin. But they went with one particular guy. Finally figured it out. I’ll let neo-neocon readers guess…
“Out of oodles,” not “put off oodles.”