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CENSORED NEWS: My grandmother loved words
My grandmother loved words. She was a dirt farmer in the old south. Each day she would work the word puzzles in the newspaper, challenged and awakened by those words. At the turn of the Nineteenth Century, she received a college degree in English. But she returned to the land. She never cut her hair or said unkind words about others.
I aked her once if she could have been anything, what would it be. She said, ‘A cotton farmer, but the boll weevils ended that.’
It was words that took me out of the old south. It was words that took me out into the world.
It is words that can make peace or war. It is words that transform us into what we are becoming. Words awaken our spirits, they carry us forward.
Tonight when Peter Phillips of the Media Freedom Foundation threatened to sue me, claiming he owned the words ‘Censored News,’ I thought of my grandmother.
She lived in a different time and place, but she knew the power of words. She knew their beauty, she knew their resilience, and she knew that like the land and river water, no one can own the words.
VDU’s blog: post-Ebola syndrome or just chronic Ebola virus disease…?
There are at least 13,000 people in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone who have survived an encounter with the Makona variant of Zaire ebolavirus (EBOV) since December 2013.1
But that’s not where the story, or the suffering, ends for these people.
Following the resolution of acute Ebola virus disease (EVD), there is the spectre of a lengthy period of subsequent symptoms, sometimes called ‘post-Ebola syndrome’ (I’d prefer post-Ebola virus disease syndrome or PEVDS), which is similar to that found among survivors from past outbreaks.2,3
via VDU’s blog: post-Ebola syndrome or just chronic Ebola virus disease…?.


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