Fear, whether it is real or imagine, it can paralyze a human being. Although it was unethical to confine patients at Carville, it was the done for the goods for majority of the population. This disease was probably never seen before and when it erupted it set in fear in the citizens. Take for example take the outbreak of Ebola in the United States in October 2014. Couple of healthcare worker from Texas were isolated and moved to a different place until they recovered. New case of diagnosed Ebola raised concerns and instilled fear in people. Even currently we do the same thing, don’t we? When a patient comes in with a “certain sets” of symptoms that we think can be spread within the population we isolate that patient until either they are cured
If the government had taken these precautions, it wouldn’t guarantee the disease being controlled. But what it would do is lower the chances for the virus to spread more.
Stephanie Burchfield, Robert Mesa, and Jeffery Cox, I commend you on your power-point presentation because the project was an experiment where you had to think outside the box and I say job well done. The presentation from beginning to end was detailed and easy to follow. The attack that Genesis 7 planned is an attack that is horrifying to think about because if a fictitious group plan an attack of this nature, just think about how many terrorist organizations has thought about the same form of attack. The ideology of the group is “that the people of this Earth have become too corrupt with disregard for the environment, God, and human life, and they must be wiped out so we can start over” and it was a brilliant move to plan the Ebola attack
The fact that the rooms that housed the patients were so stuffy and crowded pre-disposed all of them to any acute infections was both unhygienic and inhumane. This was morally wrong because one could have easily acquired diseases worse than he one that brought him or her to hospital in the first place. This is very ironic because a hospital is a place where one would go and expect remedy but in this case it was a place that would easily add a person’s suffering. (George Orwell
The CDC smallpox attack scenario at first might seem a bit farfetched. However, I feel believe that although the scenario might be somewhat exaggerated is not has farfetched as it might appear for several reasons. Smallpox has been considered eradicated since the 1970s; chances are the Center for Disease Control (CDC) has little to no vaccine on hand to deal with large scale breakout. Some government agencies tend to be reactive instead of proactive, especially when it comes to dealing with an issue that has small chance of happening.
I think hospitals in the infected areas would also create infection zones. When a person comes to a hospital the doctors don’t start with placing the person in quarantine, even if they are unsure what illness the person has. This action would cause doctors and nurses to become infected. The developers made quarantines to separate the infected zone from non-infected zones. But, the developers soon found out they couldn’t keep people in the quarantine zones. Christakis, and Fowler write “this effort failed because players refused to be quarantined” (pg. 577). I have no doubt that people told to stay in a quarantined area would become irritable quickly. Tensions would increase and cause the people in quarantine to begin rioting, breaking free of the quarantine. The virus then continues to spread becoming
In the fall of 2014, an outbreak of Ebola virus in West Africa spread to the United States. Panic overtook regions of the country and led to the search for uncovering the molecular biology of the disease and for finding a suitable treatment against the virus. Yasuteru Sakurai and colleagues discussed Ebola’s dependence on host calcium signaling proteins in their scientific journal article, “Two-pore channels control Ebola virus host cell entry and are drug targets for disease treatment”. In the article, the authors hypothesized that two-pore channels are good drug targets against Ebola because they help regulate entry into the host cell. They examined the mechanism of the calcium signals, the calcium channels activated by that mechanism, the effect of inhibiting those channels, and a drug that could potentially be an effective therapy.
When quarantined for a disease that one might not have, several events occur: stigma [the way the quarantined person feels and how others feel, act, and react towards the post-quarantined individual] and psychosocial effects, such as mental health issues, for example, stress, fear, loneliness, boredom, anger, and being worried about infecting others (Johal, 2009). Those that worked in Canada during a SARS episode found that there was tension and friction between staff members as they worried about how others would react to them once they were released. Other consequences from being quarantined, include anxiety, lack of understanding and discrimination from others, and financial difficulties from loss of wages (Styra, Hawryluck, & Gold, 2005). When 129 responders from the Canadian SARS event were interviewed, there were large numbers of diagnosed depression, post-traumatic stress syndrome (PTSD), feeling like social pariah, nightmares, with some receiving threats from their nearby community members (Dahl, 2014). The CDC recognizes the after affects, such as stigma, and has developed a package named, CARE (Check and Report Ebola) which has items for self-monitoring for Ebola and a cell phone with minutes already loaded to make phone calls to family and friends (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2015-b). The CDC also partners with other non-profits that can assist financially and emotionally for those who have been
Summary: This podcast explains the effect of the Ebola Virus on countries, and what the World Health Organization did to stop it. Sarah Boseley interviews Professor David Heymann, Dr. Mohga Kamal-Yanni, President Ernest Bai Koroma, Ban Ki-moon, and Dr. Marie-Paule Kieny. The Ebola Epidemic started in West Africa, mainly Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea. The World Health Organization (WHO) is responsible to slow down, or stop the disease from spreading. The Ebola Epidemic was still imminent in Africa while this podcast is going on, which on November 4, 2014. The interviewees say that WHO was slow to respond when the outbreak stuck the three countries. The reason that WHO was slow to respond, according to Dr. Mohga Kamal-Yanni is the funding
It’s November 10, 2014 and Dr. Johnson is aboard a 747 somewhere over the Atlantic Ocean. He is heading for home to his family in Newark, New Jersey after a long assignment to fight Ebola in Liberia, Africa. Sitting in seat 13D provides more leg room, which allows the 6’5” doctor with long legs, room to stretch and think. After his stay in Liberia he cannot help but to contemplate what has transpired within the last few months. Dr. Ben Johnson as a: doctor, humanitarian, husband and father of three was compelled to answer the call to render aid to his fellow man. However, as a human being he had reached his limit. He could stay no longer. His experiences in Liberia forced him to confront the undeniable reality of Ebola.
Science Magazine’s article, “Bat-filled tree may have been ground zero for the Ebola epidemic”, covers the possibility of bats being the source of the current Ebola outbreak. Scientists speculate that the first victim of the Ebola virus contracted the virus from a bat. The bat, an Angolan free-tailed bat, feeds on small insects (Science Magazine 2014). In Emile’s village these bats inhabited a hollowed tree, which was a popular spot for children to play and hunt the bats. Since the discovery of the bats being a potential source of the virus, the villagers burned down the tree. Dr. Fabian Leendertz, of the Robert Koch Institute in Berlin, and fellow researchers were able to find small amounts of DNA that matched the Angolan free-tailed bat, Mops condylurus (Science Magazine 2014). Other studies show these bats have been able to survive being experimentally infected with the virus. However, the DNA samples that were collected showed no traces of the Ebola virus.
This picture highlights the effect, in America, of the small Ebola outbreak that occurred in 2014-2015. All ages were well aware of Ebola because it became nationally discussed. It had grown into a fear to obtain Ebola and die. We as Americans have developed an extremely oblivious conscious to what the deathly issues are.
In all arguments there are five components that must be defined before they can be considered an argument. Of the five components exigence is paramount, as it defines what the argument is concerning. In a previous course I took, through the honors department, a group that I was in was assigned to argue a nationwide response to a theoretical Ebola outbreak. This assignment provided an issue that, if turned into a reality, would require a large response from the given audience. Through this connection, it is evident that the exigence is: the outbreak of Ebola and what the public should do. It matches the definition of exigence given by Nancy Wood by defining what the issue of the argument is. By drawing on what Blitzer said in his essay,
This goes back to their urge for control and how we are willing to give up or humanity and become monsters for control. However in our efforts for control we fail to see the flaws in what we are trying to do. We fail to understand our actions have consequence good and bad. The French medical team only say the good in their actions and failed to see the bad. There were curing Patient D but failed to see they were actually creating a monster. They were blinded by their arrogance and cockines to only see what they wanted and not the big picture. In failing to fully understand the full effects of the procedure they allowed it to spread throughout the area and lead to disaster. This further explains how we always rush in and not think about the consequences of our actions. In addition, when we fail to understand then comes fear. When people started disappearing the government react because of fear of what could happen if the procedure was not stopped. This is what happens when we fail to understand it leads to fear then to violence. The government used violence out fear to protect themselves from what they didn’t understand. A normal reaction that occurs when we don’t fully understand what we are dealing with. When we fail to understand we are doomed to
If there was a nation needing to be quarantined under a Utilitarian system, I would let no individual cross state borders. The border of each state would have military men lining it. If they were to go against this and somehow sneak out of their state, they would face jail time in their near future. In the movie, Contagion, they did not let anyone leave the state, which caused riots and panic in the citizen 's living there. To stop this from happening, I would have selective individuals from each town that had been cleared by a doctor, go out and work the stores, clean up the streets and try to keep the town as put together as possible. This would help make the situation more comforting than nerve wracking.
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