{"id":2151,"date":"2014-11-28T06:42:06","date_gmt":"2014-11-28T11:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2151"},"modified":"2014-11-28T06:42:06","modified_gmt":"2014-11-28T11:42:06","slug":"despite-aid-push-ebola-is-raging-in-sierra-leone-nytimes-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2151","title":{"rendered":"Despite Aid Push, Ebola Is Raging in Sierra Leone &#8211; NYTimes.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/11\/28\/world\/africa\/despite-aid-push-ebola-is-raging-in-sierra-leone.html?hp&amp;action=click&amp;pgtype=Homepage&amp;module=a-lede-package-region&amp;region=top-news&amp;WT.nav=top-news&amp;_r=0\">Despite Aid Push, Ebola Is Raging in Sierra Leone &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p id=\"story-continues-1\" class=\"story-body-text story-content\" style=\"font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.4375rem; font-weight: 400; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; width: 540px; max-width: 540px; margin: 0px 0px 1em 135px;\" data-para-count=\"402\" data-total-count=\"402\">KISSI TOWN, Sierra Leone \u2014 Military choppers thunder over the slums. Nearly a thousand British soldiers are on the scene, ferrying supplies and hammering together new\u00a0<a style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #326891;\" title=\"More articles about ebola.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/subjects\/e\/ebola\/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier\">Ebola<\/a>\u00a0clinics. Crates of food and medicine are flowing into the port, and planeloads of experts seem to arrive every day \u2014 Ugandan doctors, Chinese epidemiologists, Australian logisticians, even an ambulance specialist from London.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" style=\"font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.4375rem; font-weight: 400; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; width: 540px; max-width: 540px; margin: 0px 0px 1em 135px;\" data-para-count=\"321\" data-total-count=\"723\">But none of it was reaching Isatu Sesay, a sick teenager. She flipped on her left side, then her right, writhing on a foam mattress, moaning, grimacing, mumbling and squinching her eyes in agony as if she were being stabbed. Her family and neighbors called an\u00a0<a class=\"meta-classifier\" style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #326891;\" title=\"More articles about ebola.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/subjects\/e\/ebola\/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier\">Ebola<\/a>\u00a0hotline more than 35 times, desperate for an ambulance.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: nyt-cheltenham, georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;\"><\/span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; line-height: 23px; font-size: 16px;\">For three days straight, Isatu\u2019s mother did not leave her post on the porch, face gaunt, arms slack, eyes fixed up the road toward the capital, Freetown, where the Ebola command center was less than 45 minutes away.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite Aid Push, Ebola Is Raging in Sierra Leone &#8211; NYTimes.com. KISSI TOWN, Sierra Leone \u2014 Military choppers thunder over the slums. Nearly a thousand British soldiers are on the scene, ferrying supplies and hammering together new\u00a0Ebola\u00a0clinics. Crates of food and medicine are flowing into the port, and planeloads of experts seem to arrive every [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[223,232,607,944],"class_list":["post-2151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-ebola","tag-ebola-virus","tag-pandemic","tag-sierra-leone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2152,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2151\/revisions\/2152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}