Word: ebola
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...cooperate in pursuit of an international just peace. Since that time, the UN has augmented its mandate and implemented numerous programs to improve literacy, to provide food and sustainable agriculture for all, and to help children escape from poverty and slavery. A global response to something like the Ebola virus can be mounted now, an impossible feat prior to the inception of the United Nations. Yet if the United Nations is ineffectual in preventing the powerful upwelling of enmity that is submerging the Middle East, does it really serve its original purposes of establishing international peace and security? Does...
...their solidarity by washing their hands in the same bowl of water, and that's what they did at the funeral in September of Ester Awete, who died of an unexplained fever. Health workers now believe it was that ritual cleansing that launched the current outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus. The hemorrhagic fever, which kills its victims within days of its onset, is transmitted via contact with any of the body fluids of an infected person. It's killed some 39 people over the past month, and right now 10 new cases of infection are reported daily...
...wide, they've also involved the kidnapping of a number of potentially infected people, prompting fears that the initial attempts to quarantine victims in the Gulu and Kitgum districts may have come too late to stop the virus from spreading. Ironically, their best hope lies in the fact that Ebola kills its victims quickly...
...Click here for an exclusive photo essay on the Ebola outbreak...