Friday August 8th, 2014 – 10 am
Posted Aug 8, 2014 11:38:52 AM.
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The first hour of the 570 Midday Show
10:00 Minto Schneider, General Manager at Waterloo Regional Tourism Marketing Partnership
Ontario’s Waterloo Region is short on drive time – it’s less than 90 minutes from the GTA – and long on family-friendly activities, featuring everything from butterflies and lions to trains and tubing. Several packages combining both accommodation and attractions are available through Aug. 31, and all offer savings worth up to 40 per cent off overnight stays. One choice, the Wild Summer Getaway, comes with admission to African Lion Safari, Cambridge Butterfly Conservatory and the Waterloo Region Museum & Doon Heritage Village. Also this summer, Waterloo region will be alive with the sound of music at festivals that include this weekend’s Mill Race Festival, and the TD Kitchener Blues Festival, which takes place Aug. 7-10. The Waterloo region is also home to St. Jacobs Country. See explorewaterlooregion.com… But asides from events and attractions, what is the actual appeal of the Waterloo Region compared to the rest of Ontario?
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10:30 Karen Snider, Red Cross Canada
Why do health-care workers in West Africa find this current Ebola outbreak, the worst ever, so difficult to control? The strain of the virus, the Zaire, is the same one behind most of the previous outbreaks. This is not a case where the virus is any different, says Dr. Richard Olds, a tropical disease specialist. But at least part of the explanation for the current dilemma may be found in how Africa has changed since the first known outbreaks of Ebola in 1976 in the Democratic Republic of Congo and in Sudan. Adding to the problem, a number of the doctors and other medical staff treating Ebola patients succumbed to the virus themselves, including Sierra Leone’s top Ebola doctor, Sheik Umar Khan, who died last week. In past outbreaks, national health departments and aid organizations, especially Doctors Without Borders, would go in, and the homes of infected individuals or sometimes an entire village would be placed under quarantine and Ebola would soon die out.The governments of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone have already stepped up their efforts to contain the disease. Education campaigns are underway to counter traditional beliefs and customs. But sometimes health-care workers still get attacked when they try to go into a community. “Communities are in denial that this virus can kill people,” Jean-Pierre Taschereau, a Canadian leading the Red Cross response to the West Africa Ebola outbreak, told CBC Radio’s The Current. “As more cases appear, there’s an increasing fear and resistance to outside intervention, so it’s hampering our efforts,” he added.
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