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Maxed Out
Médecins Sans Frontières is near its capacity in fighting Ebola in West Africa and is calling on other organizations to step up—especially with this week’s WHO projections suggesting there could be 5,000 to 10,000 new cases a week by early December.
The aid agency has quintupled its effort since August, boosting staff from 650 to 3,000 and now operating 6 centers with a total of 600 beds across the Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
Although governments and international organizations are deploying aid, MSF said the results are not yet apparent in the field.
"We have increased our capacity a lot," said Brice de le Vingne, director of operations for MSF—also known as Doctors Without Borders. "Now we have reached our ceiling."
** Thomson Reuters (http://jhsph.us3.list-
Liberia’s Principled Response
A clearly defined chain of command and organizational structure are vital aspects of emergency response, especially when that emergency happens to be the largest and most sustained Ebola epidemic ever recorded, involving numerous domestic and international partners.
Working with the CDC, the Liberian Ministry of Health and Social Welfare has instituted incident management system (IMS) principles to enhance the organization of the response. The CDC's latest Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report describes the evolving response structure for the Ebola epidemic in Liberia.
“The findings in this report might also be useful in other settings where IMS has not been used previously and is being considered for the first time.”
** CDC (http://jhsph.us3.list-manage.
Related: More Ebola funds called for as disease’s spread rapidly outpaces aid – ** The Guardian (http://jhsph.us3.list-manage.
Related: Dallas County officials seeking travel restrictions to keep Ebola in check – ** Washington Post (http://jhsph.us3.list-
Related: Modest response by donors thus far to Ebola crisis – ** Associated Press (http://jhsph.us3.list-manage.
Related: Experts Offer Steps for Avoiding Public Hysteria, a Different Contagious Threat – ** The New York Times (http://jhsph.us3.list-manage.
Related: Bioethicist: 10 Things America Needs to Do About Ebola – ** NBC (http://jhsph.us3.list-
REPREHENSIBLE ACTS DEPT.
The Merchant of Disease Domains
Jon Schultz bought Ebola.com in 2008 for $13,500. Now, he’d like to sell it for $150,000, and has few qualms about profiting off tragedy.
He told the Washington Post that he hopes to sell soon, before the outbreak fades and diminishes Ebola’s news value.
His company also owns birdflu.com, which he told the Washington Post "...is worth way more than Ebola.com. We’re definitely holding onto that one for the event." The event he envisions is a horrific bird flu pandemic that eclipses what we're seeing with Ebola--and brings him a fortune.
** Washington Post (http://jhsph.us3.list-
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