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Belgium Stopped Deportation Of Migrants To Ebola Infected Countries

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The Belgium Republic  Government has stopped deporting migrants back to Ebola-hit African countries, to make sure the police officers who escort them are not exposed to the deadly disease, officials said Monday.</div>
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The Belgian authorities "decided in mid-August to cancel all assignments" by such officers "to Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea because of the Ebola epidemic," federal police spokeswoman Agnes Reis told AFP.</div>
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The three countries account for the vast majority of the 4,922 deaths from the Ebola epidemic, the world's worst ever outbreak.<br />
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"We don't want to take risks," Reis said, adding that at least usually two officers, but sometimes many more, escort deported migrants on the plane back to their home countries.</div>
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After handing over the deportees to the local authorities, the police usually wait at the airport for a return flight, or sometimes escort them to the immigration services.</div>
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"We don't want to make them run the risk of travelling in the affected countries, or even of waiting in the airport for several hours," Reis said.</div>
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In 2012, Guineans represented the second largest group seeking asylum in Belgium, following Afghans, with a total number of 1,808 requests, the authorities said.</div>
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The trend continued in 2013 but the number of Guineans seeking asylum decreased in the first nine months of 2014</div>
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Belgium Stopped Deportation Of Migrants To Ebola Infected Countries

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SHOCKING - 'Dead' woman heard screaming from inside coffin after being buried alive

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoRt4DXLN2o71R8_SS0-Z2HY1L_eeV-R91r4DmuOPvXp8Fa63yRNxF8ZNUAlrvWPhOJue3b-Zh9bchkyruc-yq96X7G2mbCCOK1Kxm4TGhibg7i8canTh9bGnJ950E2vjPSbmT7jtOgsAR/s1600/00_LABOR_think155911571_WoodenCoffin_Funeral.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoRt4DXLN2o71R8_SS0-Z2HY1L_eeV-R91r4DmuOPvXp8Fa63yRNxF8ZNUAlrvWPhOJue3b-Zh9bchkyruc-yq96X7G2mbCCOK1Kxm4TGhibg7i8canTh9bGnJ950E2vjPSbmT7jtOgsAR/s1600/00_LABOR_think155911571_WoodenCoffin_Funeral.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Cemetery workers raced to a newly- dug grave after they heard banging and muffled shouting an hour after a 45-year-old woman was buried.<br />As they grabbed tools and anything they could find, they rushed to dig  the grave up again after the woman woke up to find herself buried alive  in a coffin. <br /><br />But tragically, the unnamed woman died before her would-be rescuers  could reach her inside the plot at a cemetery near Greece’s  Thessaloniki.<br /><br />Now police are probing why the<br />woman was pronounced dead by doctors treating her for cancer, only to be found alive. <br /><br />Her grieving family arranged her funeral at the graveyard in Peraia, a  small town 16 miles south of Thessaloniki, Greece’s main city in the  north. <br /><br />Shortly after the last relatives left the cemetery on Thursday,  residents and a group of children playing outside reportedly heard a  female voice shouting for help from inside the grave.<br /><br />They called the police, and began digging up the grave to save her but  she had suffocated to death inside the coffin, it was reported. <br /><br />However, a doctor who was at the scene and examined the woman’s body,  said she had been dead for hours and could not have been revived.<br /><br />Dr Chrissi Matsikoudi told Greek TV channel MEGA: "I just don’t believe  it. We did several tests including one for heart failure on the body. It  would have been impossible for someone in a state of rigor mortis to  have been shouting and hitting the coffin like that.”<br /><br />A coroner is expected to examine the body. <br /><br />Meanwhile, relatives of the dead<br />woman say they are considering filing a complaint against the doctors responsible for her treatment at the cancer clinic.<br />Source: <a href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Uk Mirror</a> </div>

SHOCKING - 'Dead' woman heard screaming from inside coffin after being buried alive

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Ebola Cases Increases Drasticaly - WHO

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1LIYTrgCwig5IzLNiG8uP1UN1g6MlVL6AL0Twcre-4AbduYObg3wqJdHXyktNZLTl_oj7UVDOfJnMMaqeNUl_31yw4Tv8JBiVhHrsyibXE0YGDlA79_li9YNDN6Vko_8KNvMGzMDJejNy/s1600/ebola_micrograph_virus-photo-300x180.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1LIYTrgCwig5IzLNiG8uP1UN1g6MlVL6AL0Twcre-4AbduYObg3wqJdHXyktNZLTl_oj7UVDOfJnMMaqeNUl_31yw4Tv8JBiVhHrsyibXE0YGDlA79_li9YNDN6Vko_8KNvMGzMDJejNy/s1600/ebola_micrograph_virus-photo-300x180.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br />The number of Ebola infections is set to explode unless the response  is radically intensified, the WHO (world Health Organization) warned on  Tuesday, predicting tens of thousands of cases by the end of the year.<br />The UN agency said in a report that new cases would increase from  hundreds each week to thousands without “drastic improvements in control  measures”, with infections more than tripling to 20,000 by November.<br />“We’ve rather modestly only extended the projections to November 2,  but if you go to… January 2, you’re into hundreds of thousands,” said  Christopher Dye, the head of strategy at the World Health Organization  and a co-author of the study. <br />The research paper warns that the outbreak could drag out for years  and become entrenched in west Africa, which has already seen almost  3,000 deaths.<br />The epidemic might simply “rumble on as it has for the last few  months for the next few years,” Dye said, stressing that “the fear is  that Ebola will become more or less a permanent feature of the human  population”.<br />Liberia, the hardest-hit nation, has seen 3,000 cases and almost  1,600 deaths, with health workers turning people away from treatment  units due to chronic shortages of beds and staff.<br />The country has some 150 foreign specialized medical workers on the  ground and needs at least 600, and it is aiming to scale its current 400  Ebola beds up to around 2,000 within weeks.<br />Its response has been bolstered by a US military mission, already  deploying, which will see 3,000 troops providing training and logistics.<br />– ‘Remedy an earthquake’<br />But Antonio Vigilante, UN deputy special representative for recovery  and governance, likened the struggle to “trying to remedy an earthquake  when it is happening”.<br />Liberia said Tuesday the slow international response risked allowing  the country to slide back into civil war alongside neighboring Sierra  Leone, and could reignite civil unrest in Guinea.<br />“The world cannot wait for Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea to slip  back into conflict, which could be the result of this slowness in  response,” Information Minister Lewis Brown told AFP late Monday.<br />Sierra Leone, where more than 1,800 have been infected and nearly 600  have died, reported “an overflow of bodies” after a nationwide curfew  helped uncover more than 200 new cases.<br />The WHO study, carried out with Imperial College London, forecast  that, if no significant action were taken, the cumulative number of  confirmed and probable cases by November 2 would be around 6,000 in  Guinea, 10,000 in Liberia and 5,000 in Sierra Leone.<br />Higher infection rates would translate into a jump in the number of  deaths as the experts suggested the real fatality rate was much higher  than the widely estimated one in two, said the study published in the  New England Journal of Medicine.<br />If only cases of deaths and recovery are taken into account, the real  fatality rate stands at about 71 percent, the study showed.<br />“We are seeing exponential growth and we need to act now,” Dye said.<br />The United Nations is seeking to raise nearly $1 billion to defeat  the Ebola outbreak, the worst ever recorded, which the Security Council  has declared a threat to world peace.<br />– Virus mutation –<br />Ebola fever can fell its victims within days, causing severe muscle  pain, vomiting, diarrhoea and — in many cases — unstoppable internal and  external bleeding. It is one of the deadliest viruses known to man.<br />The current crisis, which quietly began in southern Guinea last  December, has killed far more than all other Ebola outbreaks combined.<br />Dye said that while the virus ravaging west Africa was acting  similarly to previous outbreaks, what has changed is the density and  mobility of the population affected.<br />Cultural practices like washing and touching dead bodies have  compounded the problem, as has the very slow response in countries never  before hit by the virus and by the international community, he said.<br />Weak health systems in the hardest-hit countries are also largely to  blame, said Christi Donnell, a professor of statistical epidemiology at  the Imperial College and a co-author of the study.<br />“In Nigeria, for example, where health systems are stronger, the  number of cases has so far been limited, despite the introduction of  infection into the large cities of Lagos and Port Harcourt,” she said.<br />Ebola is only transmitted through contact with body fluids, so halting its spread is usually relatively simple.<br />Even in this epidemic, each Ebola patient on average infects only 1.7  people in Guinea, 1.8 in Liberia and two in Sierra Leone, the study  showed.<br />“If it were an airborne transmitted disease… we would be in much bigger trouble than we are at the moment,” Dye said.<br />“It is possible,” he said, that the disease could mutate to be more  easily transmitted through the air, but “we certainly haven’t see that  yet”.</div>

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