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Cuba leads fight against Ebola

The Guardian Online
As the official number of Ebola deaths in west Africa's crisis topped 4,000 last week -experts say the actual figure is at least twice as high - the UN issued a stark call to arms.
Even to simply slow down the rate of infection, the international humanitarian effort would have to increase massively, warned UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.
"We need a 20-fold resource mobilisation,” he said. "We need at least a 20-fold surge in assistance - mobile laboratories, vehicles, helicopters, protective equipment, trained medical personnel, and medevac capacities."
But big hitters such as China or Brazil, or former colonial powers such France and the UK, have not been stepping up to the plate.
Instead, the single biggest medical force on the Ebola frontline has been a small island: Cuba.
That a nation of 11 million people, with a GDP of $6,051 per capita, is leading the effort says much of the international response.
A brigade of 165 Cuban health workers arrived in Sierra Leone last week, the first batch of a total of 461. In sharp contrast, western governments have appeared more focused on stopping the epidemic at their borders than actually stemming it in west Africa.
It's not the first time Cuba has played an outsized role in a major disaster.
Cuba provided the largest medical contingent after the Haiti earthquake disaster in
Hudhud hammers
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As the storm progresses, it will bring heavy rainfall to very heavy rainfall in Chhatisgarh, Bihar, East Madhya Pradesh and East UP and Gangetic belt of West Bengal.
Aircraft services will be able to operate from today morning as the weather is expected to improve.
While three persons were killed in rain-related incidents in Andhra Pradesh, two were killed in Odisha.
The affected people have been accommodated in 604 shelter homes, Patnaik said, adding the state government was prepared to face the situation caused by the cyclone and possible floods thereafter.
Hudhud is expected to continue to dump heavy rains in northern and northeastern India and, eventually, snow when it reaches the Himalayan mountains.
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2010, providing care to almost 40% of the victims. And while some 400 US doctors volunteered in the aftermath of that quake, fewer than 10 had registered for the IMC's Ebola effort.
In a round of broadcast interviews, David Nabarro, the United Nations special envoy on Ebola, said the global authorities have given themselves three months to get the virus under control.
He said it was spreading "exponentially" across west Africa but there was a very good chance of meeting this target of seeing the number of new cases reduce week by week by next year.
Meanwhile, a Texas healthcare worker who provided care for Thomas Eric Duncan, the first patient to be given a diagnosis of Ebola in the US, who died on Wednesday, has tested positive for the deadly virus.
At a Sunday morning press conference at the hospital, it was confirmed that a close contact of the healthcare worker — who officials said was wearing full protective gear when he or she made contact with Duncan - has also been placed, "proactively", in isolation. The new case is the first person-to-person transmission of the disease in the US.
The London Mayor Boris Johnson yesterday said there is little doubt a case of Ebola will come to the UK and this will most probably be in London.
He admitted that health checks at UK airports were a "far from perfect solution” and cautioned the government against seeming to “promise stuff that doesn't really make any sense".
As the outbreak continues to spread across west Africa, Johnson suggested the best thing the UK could do was to be prepared for a new case of the virus when it happens.