A PRAYER  FOR  WEST  AFRICA   -   BOSCONET THOUGHTS

West Africa is facing a serious crisis, and it will probably get worse before it gets better. Ebola has broken out and by Friday 539 had died. It started in Guinea. Since it had never been seen in West Africa earlier, people thought the high fever was the result of the familiar malaria. When deaths occurred they saw no reason not to touch their bodies, as is the custom in the local culture.

Ebola is the most terrible and frightening disease known to humanity. Patients bleed from the ears and nose, and in some cases from the skin all over the body. A touch of the sick person’s body or corpse could be sufficient to get infected. I remember watching on Belgian TV in the 90’s doctors and specialists from the WHO in space suits, dealing with bodies, clothes, bed linen and hospital equipment that had the slightest possibility of having had contact with patients. That was somewhere in East Africa then.

This outbreak has spread from a village in Guinea to its capital and to two more nations – Liberia and Sierra Leone. 

The people of these countries need immediate help from experts to prevent a disaster for the entire population, including all of us in all countries, however far from them. We are not experts. We do our share – PRAYERS.

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