Situation Report

By Lena H. Sun September 11 - washingtonpost.com

More than six months into the worst Ebola outbreak in history, there is no clear sense of who is leading the international response, how funds are being collected and disbursed, which organizations are providing equipment and personnel, and when any of these efforts will make a significant difference in slowing the epidemic in West Africa.

The confusion and lack of coordination have delayed shipments of desperately needed supplies; some of those being pledged now won’t arrive for months. For example, a 62-bed facility that the British government on Monday promised to deliver will take eight weeks to be operational; the 25-bed field hospital the Pentagon has offered will take at least a month before it is up and running.

By By BASHIR ADIGUN and JONATHAN PAYE-LAYLEH - Updated: 08/23/2014 1:00 pm EDT

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Two alarming new cases of Ebola have emerged in Nigeria, widening the circle of people sickened beyond the immediate group of caregivers who treated a dying airline passenger in one of Africa's largest cities.

The outbreak also continues to spread elsewhere in West Africa, with 142 more cases recorded, bringing the new total to 2,615 with 1,427 deaths, the World Health Organization said Friday.

Most of the new cases are in Liberia, where the government was delivering donated rice to a slum where 50,000 people have been sealed off from the rest of the capital in an attempt to contain the outbreak.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/22/nigeria-ebola-quarantine_n_5699062.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular

Anastasia Pantsios | August 14, 2014 11:50 am

Spinwatch’s Andy Rowell reports:

The commercial success of the Ebberston Moor field depends on Third Energy being allowed to re-inject the potentially radioactive water that is produced with the gas back into what is known as the Sherwood Sandstone formation, which overlies the limestone where the gas will be extracted from. The sandstone lies 1400 metres below the ground. Notes of a meeting between Third Energy and the regulator involved, the Environment Agency, disclosed under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), reveals that “the success of the Ebberston Moor Field is dependent on the disposal of [produced] water to the Sherman Sandstone.”

http://ecowatch.com/2014/08/14/fracking-waste-disposal-opposition/2/

Tête de Médecins sans Frontières dit le monde est "perdre la bataille" comme des cas et décès continuent de surtension

MSF - theguardian.com - par Sarah Boulongne - 2 septembre 2014

Équipes militaires doivent être envoyées à l'Afrique de l'Ouest immédiatement si il doit y avoir un quelconque espoir de maîtriser l'épidémie d'Ebola, médecins sur la ligne de front, a déclaré l'ONU mardi, un tableau saisissant des agents de santé meurent, malades laissés sans soins et organismes infectieux se trouvant dans les rues.

Le Président international de Médecins sans Frontières (MSF), Dr Joanne Liu, dit membre déclare que bien que la sonnette d'alarme avait été sonner pendant six mois, la réponse a été trop peu, trop tard, et aucune quantité de vaccins et nouveaux médicaments ne serait en mesure d'empêcher la catastrophe escalade.