WHO: Ebola ‘Most Severe Emergency In Modern Times’

by JASmius



To paraphrase Chief Brody in Jaws, "I think we're gonna need a bigger protocol":

The Ebola outbreak is the "most severe acute health emergency in modern times," the head of the World Health Organization warned Monday.

The agency's director-general, Margaret Chan, said the epidemic had proved "the world is ill-prepared to respond to any severe, sustained, and threatening public health emergency".

New cases of Ebola are now "rising exponentially" in the three hardest-hit countries, Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone.

In a statement to a regional health conference in the Philippine capital Manila, she said: "I have never seen a health event threaten the very survival of societies and governments in already very poor countries.

"I have never seen an infectious disease contribute so strongly to potential state failure."

Chan urged East Asian and Pacific countries to strengthen defences against the Ebola outbreak, warning that the whole world may be at risk....

"In the simplest terms, this outbreak shows how one of the deadliest pathogens on Earth can exploit any weakness in the health infrastructure," Chan told an annual meeting of Western Pacific health officials in a speech read for her. [emphasis added]

Hmmm; "World" Health Organization - that's part of the "international community," isn't it?  Something for which I assumed the Left in general and Barack Hussein Obama in particular had a great deal of respect, and would think they would be dutifully heeding on that basis alone.

Are they?  Hell, no:

In the midst of the Ebola crisis, the Obama administration has no business spending hundreds of millions of dollars for the Centers for Disease Control to fund "non-essential" programs that give grants for things like improving sidewalks and street lighting,  Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal writes in an opinion piece for Politico.

While the Centers, or CDC, is well funded, much of the money has been diverted from programs to fight infectious diseases and directed to "programs far afield from the CDC's original purpose," such as the Prevention and Public Health Fund, Jindal writes in "The Facts About Ebola Funding."

This fund receives annual mandatory appropriations created by ObamaCare, according to Jindal, who notes that despite nearly $3 billion the CDC has received from the fund over the past five years, just 6% went toward building epidemiology and lab capacity.

"Especially given the agency's postwar roots as the Communicable Disease Center, one would think that 'detecting and responding to infectious diseases and other public health threats' warrants a larger funding commitment," Jindal writes.

He points out that the community transformation grant program received three times as much money as what was appropriated to fight infectious disease....

"To govern is to choose," he writes. "Unfortunately, this administration seems intent on not choosing, instead trying to insinuate Washington into every nook and cranny of our lives. [emphases added]

Well, that and ebola.  After which anywhere from 50% to 90% of us won't have our lives any longer.  Almost as if "potential state failure" is the implicit objective of the Obama CDC's "protocols".  Leaving, of course, the Obama Regime to take over, pick up the "pieces," and "discard" the ones they don't want.  "Culling of the herd," as they used to call it.

Nothing like a little socioepidemiological Darwinism in the early afternoon, is there?