re: #151 wheat-dogghazi-bola

Absolutely. And sociopaths like CCJ think nothing of spreading the fear-mongering rumors that MSF is the one responsible for the outbreak, which repeats and feeds into the sentiment in some parts of the world where public health workers are attacked for trying to educate, let alone provide vaccinations, for communicable and entirely preventable diseases.

Nigeria is one of the countries where polio persisted into the 21st century. In 2003, polio vaccination efforts had to be suspended after unfounded rumors that vaccines were causing diseases - allowing a new outbreak to occur there. And the country is still one of the places where polio is still endemic and new cases are reported even this year.

But their vaccination efforts in recent years also helped the country track down and stop the Ebola outbreak there in its tracks by using the skills and methods from the polio vaccination efforts when cases were identified.

But Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone are countries that have a fraction of the medical infrastructure of even Nigeria - let alone the US or Western Europe.

The thing that’s galling to me is that people like CCJ have no empathy for addressing this public health crisis - blaming those that are providing care for Ebola patients. And there needs to be serious pushback on this - holding these nitwits accountable for their irresponsible and malicious statements.

He puts people in danger with his statements. There’s no way to sugar coat that.