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Home for the Holidays in Blue Eye

Most of us can relate to that warm fuzzy feeling we have about being at home for the holidays. Home is where we are surrounded by those that we love and those who love us.  It’s where you’re accepted unconditionally, and celebrated just for being you. It’s a place where the sheer joy of existing is tangible and hangs in the air like the pine scent of a freshly cut Christmas tree. Home is a delightful place, and the atmosphere of home feels like it just reaches around you and gives you a big hug.

Wherever the holiday gathering takes place, there is wonderful smells of delicious foods you only indulge in once a year, prepared lovingly for the expressed delight of those who will savor every morsel. Twinkling lights and red ribbons, pine wreaths and mistletoe, Christmas trees and bright centerpieces adorned with candles – all of these and more add to the magic of being home for the holidays. Continue reading →

Bodies of Ebola Victims Found Piled Up In Hospital

Officials in Sierra Leone were forced to admit a major Ebola outbreak went largely unreported to international health officials after the World Health Organization found dozens of Ebola victims’ bodies stacked in a pile at a hospital.

The WHO says a response team has been sent into the Kono district are a reported spike in Ebola cases.

“They uncovered a grim scene,” the U.N. health agency said in a statement. “In 11 days, two teams buried 87 bodies, including a nurse, an ambulance driver, and a janitor drafted into removing bodies as they piled up.”

The WHO team found that Ebola had hit 8 of the 15 chiefdoms in the area and it had not been reported to officials.

“We are only seeing the ears of the hippo,” Dr. Amara Jambai, Sierra Leone’s Director of Disease Prevention and Control told Fox News.

Sierra Leone has seen a significant rise in reported cases of Ebola and has overtaken neighbor Liberia for total number of cases.  Liberia, however, has 1,400 more deaths listed in the official death toll.

However, Sierra Leone officials admitted they had only been counting deaths of patients with laboratory confirmed cases of Ebola, so many had died without being tested and confirmed to have the virus.

Whooping Cough Outbreak In California

The CDC is confirming that California is in the midst of a whooping cough outbreak.

Doctors say that the outbreak is the worst in 70 years and there is over 1,000 more cases than the last major outbreak in 2010.  Over 9,900 cases have been reported and confirmed as of November 26th.

The disease, known as pertussis, is caused by bacteria and is known to run on a 3 to 5 year peak cycle.

“The last time a series of outbreaks occurred across the country, California started the parade,” said Dr. William Schaffner, chairman of preventive medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, told ABC News. “And so this is a harbinger we are fearful of.”

The CDC says that 50 percent of children under a year old who catch the disease need to be hospitalized and up to 2 percent die.

The CDC is requesting that all pregnant women be injected with the whooping couch vaccine with the hope that the injection will pass the protection from mother to child.