30 ROAD WORKERS SICK - 14th June 2012
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Those were the only clippings I could save regarding the outbreak. After the initial reports of the epidemic, the government had taken over SMC and issued warnings of the possible spread of disease. But it was too late, the disease was left unchecked. Either the balance of the workforce at the site had contacted the disease or a hole in the quarantine procedure had caused it to be spread. Either way, the disease took down half the nation within a few days of that entry.
The government has released a statement announcing 30 road workers for a major construction firm have been submitted to the Salmaniya Medical Complex (SMC) yesterday due to an unknown illness. The workers, mainly of Indian, Pakistani & Bangladeshi origins, have fallen ill on the first day start of the government's drive to build a new highway through a burial mound site. The project which is part of the country's existing growth plan, had met with strong criticism from the general public calling the whole project a 'disgrace to the culture and history of Bahrain'. Several sources at the SMC have announced that the workers' symptoms involve severe dehydration, hallucination, fevers and bleeding. They are to be kept under quarantine under further notice.
UNKNOWN ILLNESS EPIDEMIC?? - 15th June 2012
With the recent submission of the 30 workers on the 13th of June 2012, it has been reported in the early morning that three hospital staff have contacted the mysterious disease. Meanwhile, the state of the initial batch have worsened, with five dead and the rest deteriorating at a rapid rate. The hospital section containing the infection have been cordoned off and the SMC is at a state of emergency, implementing counter-epidemic procedures. The government has yet to issue any official statement.
With the recent submission of the 30 workers on the 13th of June 2012, it has been reported in the early morning that three hospital staff have contacted the mysterious disease. Meanwhile, the state of the initial batch have worsened, with five dead and the rest deteriorating at a rapid rate. The hospital section containing the infection have been cordoned off and the SMC is at a state of emergency, implementing counter-epidemic procedures. The government has yet to issue any official statement.
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Those were the only clippings I could save regarding the outbreak. After the initial reports of the epidemic, the government had taken over SMC and issued warnings of the possible spread of disease. But it was too late, the disease was left unchecked. Either the balance of the workforce at the site had contacted the disease or a hole in the quarantine procedure had caused it to be spread. Either way, the disease took down half the nation within a few days of that entry.
Hysteria and violence was at all time high, with people trying to leave but the country was not suited for an immediate evacuation. It did not matter in the end, as it just proved easy picking for for the 'others'. I'm glad to have stayed huddled where I was, rather than risking it out there. But as I thought to myself of the people that have been taken, which could be my very own friends and family, had made surviving alone much more difficult. Perhaps, it'd be just easier if I became one of them?
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