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Post by theshee on Jun 5, 2011 1:56:49 GMT 10
An unidentified disease has killed at least 64 people, mainly women and children, in villages in the southwestern Somali region of Bakool over the past three days, elders confirmed on Thursday. The elders said there are no health facilities in the affected villages of Yoonkoy and Busti around the region’s provincial capital of Hudur, which is about 430 kilometers southwest of Mogadishu. An elder in the region, Omar Isak Madey, told the media Thursday that the strange illness emerged at the beginning of the week and people began dying within 48 hours after becoming infected. "This is a humanitarian disaster we have never seen before so we are calling for an emergency life saving medical assistance," Madey during a telephone press conference. "There is a terrible condition here, people are dying and we cannot do anything to save them," the elder lamented. Most cities and towns in the Bakool region including the provincial capital are under the control of Al-Shabaab militants who have banned international aid agencies from the region. hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/woalert_read.php?cid=30806
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Post by brillbilly on Jun 5, 2011 2:00:04 GMT 10
something is sturing up the soup?
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Post by boxfree on Jun 5, 2011 2:00:49 GMT 10
God will make everything alright
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Post by Wes Gear on Jun 5, 2011 2:01:48 GMT 10
Those with out good medical care have no chance.
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Post by Wes Gear on Jun 5, 2011 2:03:03 GMT 10
Is this planetary karma?
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Post by theshee on Jun 5, 2011 2:03:24 GMT 10
If you think about the way the weather etc is, its bound to mix up disease. Beeing red hot then freezing cold would make a breading ground. Saying that, the things these people eat & their hygein conditions anything would be possible here too. Sad that all international help has been banned though!
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Post by Wes Gear on Jun 5, 2011 2:04:30 GMT 10
Why has international help been banned?
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