If there’s an Ebola epidemic in West Africa, Professor Helen Lauer hasn’t found it from her post at the University of Ghana. She does, however, see a fake crisis orchestrated to support vaccine testing on West Africans and a pretext for a U.S. invasion of the continent, and “How Positive Are You” is the first to break the story. HPAY co-hosts Elizabeth Ely and David Crowe first discuss the contradictions in the science as reported, then call up Prof. Lauer at the scene of the crime. In a country where the leading cause of death in children through age 5 is illness caused by unsafe drinking water and prenatal malnutrition, such an “outside intervention” as the Ebola crisis places a burden on Ghana’s already overtaxed health care infrastructure, she says. And funding to address West Africa’s real public health issues is nearly impossible to obtain unless it is “piggybacked” on requests pegged to vaccination programs and Western-media-hyped epidemics. howpositiveareyou/2014/10/23/hpay-089-helen_lauer/
Posted on: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 05:49:55 +0000
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