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A Dallas nurse who cared for Ebola victim  has become the first person to contract the Ebola virus on U.S. soil. Her case, which has become a national sensation, threatens to shatter public confidence in the preparations that the country鈥檚 health care system made after the current Ebola outbreak began to spread. This outbreak, the worst on record, has killed more than 4,000 people 鈥?mostly in the West African countries of Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea.
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The corner of Martin Luther King, Jr. Way and E Cherry St. is something of a mishmash. Made up of a mix of small businesses, a YWCA, a church, vacant lots and private residences, this corner is the intersection of three thriving neighborhoods Leschi, Madrona and the Central District but lacks a distinct character of its own.
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We鈥檙e now starting to see that Western nations weren鈥檛 as prepared as they said they were for the disease. The infection of the Dallas nurse is the second known to have occurred outside of West Africa since the outbreak began in March. The other is that of a nurse鈥檚 aide in Spain.
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It鈥檚 bewildering and frightening to realize that  health officials weren鈥檛 completely ready for this, considering all the time they had. Dr. , director of the , said a still-unknown breach of protocol ended with the Texas nurse鈥檚 diagnosis.
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Resident and homeowner Kiki Michelle Gram, who lives on the corner of E. Columbia and MLK, is on a campaign to change that. She s petitioning the city to extend the existing 23rd Jackson Residential Urban Village (RUV) boundary to include the area bounded by E. Columbia, E. Cherry, MLK Way and the alley on the east.
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What鈥檚 really frightening is the fact that many health care experts believe that it鈥檚 not just the that doesn鈥檛 completely understand protocols for containing the virus. In fact, they believe that U.S. health care workers have deep gaps in their knowledge about Ebola care.  
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This lack of knowledge about global public health isn鈥檛 surprising, at least not in a country where a majority of citizens support banning all flights into the U. S. from countries experiencing an outbreak. (A majority of federal health officials, international relief agencies and public health experts don鈥檛 believe a travel ban would work, and there are many reasons why it might make matters even worse.)
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The idea is that extending the boundary which currently stops at the middle of MLK would bring more city attention to the area, increasing the opportunities for development of that corner in the future.
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Our health care system and drug infrastructure have also contributed to this mind set. Ebola emerged 40 years ago, but the biggest reason there is no cure or vaccine is that pharmaceutical companies, focused on profits, decided it wasn鈥檛 worth developing vaccines or remedies for a virus that overwhelmingly affected only the world鈥檚 poorer regions.
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Now those decisions are coming back to haunt all of us. As Dr. , director general of the World Health Organization, said on Monday, health care neglect in developing countries means that 鈥渨hen a deadly and dreaded virus hits the destitute and spirals out of control, the whole world is put at risk.鈥?
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Rather than some developer swooping in and building townhouses, inclusion in the RUV would ideally bring in more community organizations to the area. It would not change the existing zoning, Gram says, but would amend the current situation where the businesses on one side of MLK are included in the RUV whereas the businesses across the street are not. The adjacent property owners support the proposal as well.
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Chan, who dealt with both the 2009 avian flu pandemic and the 2002-03 SARS outbreaks, also cautioned that we are still globally unprepared to cope with public health threats in an age of mass international transit and other modern conveniences.
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One potential solution, which has been endorsed by economists and has been successfully used by other countries seeking scientific solutions, would be to offer a prize for pharmaceutical companies to develop drugs in neglected categories. It sounds a bit silly, and it would be expensive 鈥?the estimated a prize price of $1 billion for a new and effective antibiotic. A lot of money? Yes. Yet we鈥檙e learning just how expensive it is to do nothing.<p>Related Articles:</p><ul><li><a href=http://www.buycelinebags.com>Celine Bags Outlet</a></li><li><a href=http://www.buycelinebags.com>Celine Outlet Store</a></li><li><a href=http://www.buycelinebags.com>Celine UK</a></li></ul>
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At this point, Gram s aim is simply to submit the proposal to the city for consideration, which is why she presented to the&nbsp;Madrona Community Council last week asking for the council s support. The MCC voted almost unanimously to write a letter of support for submitting the proposal for consideration.&nbsp;
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Gram has until the beginning of December to gather signs of support from the community to submit her proposal. To date, she has signatures supporting the proposal from the MCC, the adjacent property owners and neighbors&nbsp;and the Central Area District Council.&nbsp;
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What do you think about the prospects for the corner of MLK and Cherry?
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Revision as of 17:48, 31 October 2014

@@@ The corner of Martin Luther King, Jr. Way and E Cherry St. is something of a mishmash. Made up of a mix of small businesses, a YWCA, a church, vacant lots and private residences, this corner is the intersection of three thriving neighborhoods Leschi, Madrona and the Central District but lacks a distinct character of its own.

Resident and homeowner Kiki Michelle Gram, who lives on the corner of E. Columbia and MLK, is on a campaign to change that. She s petitioning the city to extend the existing 23rd Jackson Residential Urban Village (RUV) boundary to include the area bounded by E. Columbia, E. Cherry, MLK Way and the alley on the east.

The idea is that extending the boundary which currently stops at the middle of MLK would bring more city attention to the area, increasing the opportunities for development of that corner in the future.

Rather than some developer swooping in and building townhouses, inclusion in the RUV would ideally bring in more community organizations to the area. It would not change the existing zoning, Gram says, but would amend the current situation where the businesses on one side of MLK are included in the RUV whereas the businesses across the street are not. The adjacent property owners support the proposal as well.

At this point, Gram s aim is simply to submit the proposal to the city for consideration, which is why she presented to the Madrona Community Council last week asking for the council s support. The MCC voted almost unanimously to write a letter of support for submitting the proposal for consideration. 

Gram has until the beginning of December to gather signs of support from the community to submit her proposal. To date, she has signatures supporting the proposal from the MCC, the adjacent property owners and neighbors and the Central Area District Council. 

What do you think about the prospects for the corner of MLK and Cherry?

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