Raconteur Report

  Employment has resumed. With roughly four times the amount of grief, annoyance, and general PITA fucktardery as I experienced filli...

Over there someplace --->>> there should be a new addition to the blogroll: Hogwarts' School of Grid-Down Medicine . A...

Today's Lesson: Watch Your Step Fitness model, actor and reality TV star Greg Plitt was fatally struck by a Metrolink train in B...

My vacay was lovely. As will become apparent, I should have stayed there. (If you have the chance for two weeks on Maui, I highly recomm...

For the first time in two decades, I got the holidays off for personal vacation. (Seniority, or the gods of random fortune, thank you). ...

The real motivation for all that Ebola preparedness comes out: ( PORKVILLE ) - Senator Chuck Schumer on Monday called on U.S. secreta...

Kenema, Sierra Leone ( Al Jazeera )-  Massah Kamara sat patiently with her brother Momoh, her haunted eyes focused somewhere in the mid...

"Can I just get five more seconds in the spotlight? How about four? Okay then...three...? Speaking of Slow Learners, today...

GENEVA ( Reuters ) - The failure of Sierra Leone's strategy for fighting Ebola may be down to a missing ingredient: a big shock th...

Given the all but predictable info-dumps on the weekends, the latest: ( Reuters ) Liberia's elections have gone from on to off a...

Here's the YouTubed home vid of a doc coming out of PPE isolation in W. Africa (in this case, for his last time). Note the process, and ...

Surprise! Surprise! Shortly after re-opening their border with Guinea(?!), closed since mid-August, the nation of Guinea Bissau let so...

In past, I have rhetorically used the phrase "cancel Christmas" to describe things when/if the Ebola situation gets bad. Now, ...

Courtesy of Reddit  and user c0mputar, here are the 4-day daily case totals of reported Ebola cases going back to late August: Dec 4...

( Reuters ) - An American nurse who was exposed to Ebola while volunteering in an Ebola treatment unit in Sierra Leone will be admitte...

Breaking: WHO notices horses are gone, Sierra Leone rushes to lock barn: ( AP/ABC ) Health workers sent to Sierra Leone to investig...

US Airports Screened 2000 Travelers For Ebola, But Found No Cases    Nearly 2,000 travelers from West Africa who arrived at five U.S....

  (click to embiggen) FREETOWN ( UK Guardian ) - They send in surveillance officers to investigate homes where there have been death...

GENEVA ( Reuters ) - Ebola is still spreading quickly in western Sierra Leone and deep in Guinea’s forested region, a senior UN officia...

LONDON ( AP ) — As health officials struggle to contain the world’s biggest-ever Ebola outbreak, their efforts are being complicated by ...