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Omaha Steve

(99,600 posts)
Sun Oct 5, 2014, 10:47 AM Oct 2014

Photographer covering Ebola: The world must see

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Source: AP-Excite

By JEROME DELAY

MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — The biggest danger in a war zone is not seeing the enemy.

What people face here in Liberia is a war, and no one has seen the enemy.

From the balcony of the hotel that has become the de facto international Ebola crisis headquarters here, the ballet of fancy SUVs never stops. They are ferrying U.N. officials, U.S. military brass, diplomats and foreign journalists.

But never do we see the vehicles of the few non-governmental organizations present in Monrovia, for they are out in the field, along with the under-equipped ambulances and burial teams, at work 24/7 to try to put an end to the Ebola outbreak.

FULL story at link.



FILE - In this Monday Sept. 29, 2014 file photo, an MSF nurse is prepared with Personal Protection Equipment before entering a high risk zone of MSF's Ebola isolation and treatment center in Monrovia, Liberia. Six months into the world{2019}s worst-ever Ebola outbreak, and the first to happen in an unprepared West Africa, the gap between what has been sent by other countries and private groups and what is desperately needed is huge. Even as countries try to marshal more resources to close the gap, those needs threaten to become much greater, and possibly even insurmountable. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)


Read more: http://apnews.excite.com/article/20141005/af--liberia-ebola-essay-62f40f94f4.html

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Photographer covering Ebola: The world must see (Original Post) Omaha Steve Oct 2014 OP
'There are journalists of all media who think telling the story of humanity is well worth the risk.' Octafish Oct 2014 #1
Our true heroes... TheVisitor Oct 2014 #2
Thank you for the photo link. It is hearbreaking, looking at the families caring for ill people, so uppityperson Oct 2014 #4
so heartbreaking Danmel Oct 2014 #3
Which people are you talking about? oberliner Oct 2014 #5
all the wing nuts Danmel Oct 2014 #6
Gotcha oberliner Oct 2014 #7
Host consensus that this is not Latest Breaking News. cbayer Oct 2014 #8

Octafish

(55,745 posts)
1. 'There are journalists of all media who think telling the story of humanity is well worth the risk.'
Sun Oct 5, 2014, 11:09 AM
Oct 2014

"For without that, there is no humanity."



Nathaniel Edward,2, is listless and limp. The boy’s grandmother died of Ebola, and now his mother is sick too.

More images from AP photographer Jerome Daley:

http://www.thenational.ae/world/africa/in-pictures-battling-ebola-in-liberia#1

TheVisitor

(173 posts)
2. Our true heroes...
Sun Oct 5, 2014, 01:31 PM
Oct 2014

Are the people who risk their lives for the sake of humanity... The people who display empathy and courage to face difficult situations like these and expose them, hoping for help, are our true heroes... I'll tell you who are not heroes, they are definitely not the ones who we are told to praise, that put people in body bags by murdering them..

uppityperson

(115,677 posts)
4. Thank you for the photo link. It is hearbreaking, looking at the families caring for ill people, so
Sun Oct 5, 2014, 02:12 PM
Oct 2014

many of them may be exposed and infected by caregiving.


A man, identified as Mr Kollis, centre, who shows signs of the Ebola infection, refuses to leave his home and board an ambulance dispatched to take him to Monrovia, Liberia.



An ambulance speeds through traffic towards the clinic carrying six patients with signs of Ebola from the village of Freeman Reserve in Monrovia. Even when ambulances can reach people, the fear of being transported to a facility where more than half the patients leave in body bags keeps some from going.



A medical worker sprays patients being discharged from the Island Clinic where the facility is preparing to release more than 50 survivors.

Danmel

(4,913 posts)
3. so heartbreaking
Sun Oct 5, 2014, 01:40 PM
Oct 2014

The problem is that people don't see the poor people in Africa as equally entitled to a decent life, to have a chance. These children have as much of a right to live a safe and peaceful life as my children do. It is so unspeakably sad.

 

oberliner

(58,724 posts)
5. Which people are you talking about?
Sun Oct 5, 2014, 02:16 PM
Oct 2014

Who are the people that don't see the poor people in Africa as equally entitled to a decent life?

Danmel

(4,913 posts)
6. all the wing nuts
Sun Oct 5, 2014, 02:22 PM
Oct 2014

Complaining that we are sending troops, rush Limbaugh and Donald Trump stating that aid workers who become ill are on their own and shouldn't be allowed home for treatment, I know people complaining about us spending money on it.

 

oberliner

(58,724 posts)
7. Gotcha
Sun Oct 5, 2014, 02:34 PM
Oct 2014

I just want to make sure we credit the brave people who care very deeply and have risked their lives in order to try to help.

cbayer

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8. Host consensus that this is not Latest Breaking News.
Sun Oct 5, 2014, 03:19 PM
Oct 2014

Please consider reposting in another forum.

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