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Liberia says 4 remaining Ebola patients have recovered: surveillance continues
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ASSOCIATED PRESS by JONATHAN PAYE-LAYLEH July 17, 2015
MONROVIA, Liberia (— The four remaining patients infected during Liberia's recent string of Ebola cases have recovered, meaning there are currently no confirmed cases in the country though more than 100 people are still under surveillance, a health official said Friday.
"There are no Ebola cases anywhere in Liberia as we speak," Deputy Health Minister Tolbert Nyenswah told The Associated Press.
In an interview earlier with state media, he said the four patients had recovered and would be discharged in a ceremony on Monday.
"It is still too early to say is it is over," Nyenswah cautioned in the interview, noting that 123 contacts were being monitored.
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Ebola still poses a serious threat
WASHINGTON POST Op-ed by Kent Brantly, a doctor with the international relief organization Samaritan’s Purse, who had contracted Ebola. July 18, 2015
Crisis often generates a tension between fear and compassion. Much of the reaction to Ebola in the United States last year was evidence of fear trumping compassion. We saw public health policy being guided by fear rather than by the best available science. We observed sufferers of Ebola — and even healthy individuals who simply volunteered to fight the virus — being treated not like victims or heroes but criminals and threats to the public. These attitudes broke my heart, not just for the casualties of this public attitude but also for the public itself.
When we discriminate against those for whom we ought to have compassion, we lose our sense of empathy. We become callous, and our humanity is eroded. We too quickly give up on caring for people with a protracted need for help, leaving the defenseless to fend for themselves.
My wife, Amber, and I, along with our two children, recently returned to Liberia — where I contracted Ebola one year ago — to visit friends and colleagues. We had the opportunity to say thank you and to express our deep gratitude to the many who cared for me in my illness, who fasted and prayed for me in their churches and who took action in official capacities to allow a patient sick with Ebola to be evacuated across the Atlantic Ocean. Though too short, it was a meaningful reunion....
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/have-compassion-as-ebola-lingers-in-west-africa/2015/07/17/7779c354-2a68-11e5-a250-42bd812efc09_story.html