According
to NaturalNews, for the last 11 days, there has been silence on the Ebola front
here in the U.S. since the last confirmed case of the disease was announced.
But the situation is hardly as rosy in Sierra Leone, where an Africa Governance
Initiative (AGI) report says Ebola is now spreading at a 900 percent faster
rate than it was two months ago.
In
early September, the official number was 1.3 new cases of Ebola per day in
Sierra Leone, one of the three "ground zero" countries that has been
most ravaged by the virus. Now, that number has escalated to 12 new cases per
day in the rural areas surrounding Freetown, the country's capital,
representing a more than nine-fold increase.
The
data was compiled by Sierra Leone's health ministry and relayed to AGI
analysts, who used it to come up with three-day averages for how quickly the
disease is spreading. This same data showed that, in the city of Freetown,
Ebola is spreading at a rate about six times higher than it was two months ago,
suggesting that the crisis is far from over.
"The
government of Sierra Leone is making real strides in tackling transmission by
speeding up access to treatment and safe and dignified burial," stated AGI
chief executive Nick Thompson. "But we can't rest until Ebola has nowhere
to hide. And we can see from growth in new cases in some rural parts of Sierra
Leone that we still have no time to lose if we're going to get on top of
this."
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As
explained by Global Research, the roughly 2,000 National Guard troops
that Obama recently sent to Africa have not been properly trained in dealing
with this type of health crisis. But they are there to set up dozens of
supposed treatment centers, which some believe is more indicative of the true
purpose of the crisis: to advance the U.S. military's presence throughout the
region.
"The
total collapse of the public health systems throughout Africa follows decades
of civil wars, fomented by US and EU military policies, in order to plunder
Africa's economies and rich natural resources -- while marketing Western arms
and mercenaries," wrote Professor James Petras for Global Research.
"Militarizing
the problems of Africa and creating millions of refugees has naturally led to
plagues -- Ebola today, [malaria yesterday] and other infectious diseases and
miseries tomorrow."
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see some fascinating and interesting clips regarding the truth about the threat
from Ebola and how the government is trying to recuperate from it, one can
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