Case Study Ebola

Historically Ebola has had a serious impact on human health and hygiene and still does due to the fact of no vaccine or treatment being discovered, but thanks to improvements in scientific and medical knowledge the virus itself is now controllable.

Unlike HIV or other global viruses, Ebola is until this day geographically restrained, facilitating the deduction that the responsible originated from West Africa or returned from areas confirmed as danger zones. The list of suspects is indeed rather short: it amounts to Western Africans travelling to America and U.S. citizen contaminated in the same region. The latter category is, as cases in the western world indicate, consisted virtually exclusively of humanitarian helpers and health personal having been in contact with Ebola patients. Albeit these categories are subject to broad generalizations, they are the fruit of the apparent human condition to investigate, regardless of the rationality behind the reasoning. Seale baptised these generalisations “health imagined communities” (Seale, 2007, p. 92). Lupton emphasized on the experience that constructed risk communities don’t differ from real risk communities as much in their consequences as they do in their

In both Ebola Outbreak by Dabbous and A mask on the Face of Death by Seltzer they discuss the social and political problems contributing to the spread of Ebola and HIV/AIDS. These Epidemics continue to spread thought out the world to millions of people. The main areas that these diseases began to spread began in very poverty stricken countries. Not only did poverty play a role in the spread but both Dabbous and Seltzer pointed out the lack of education in the area which leads people to easily be manipulated by stories about the diseases. The cultural practices in these areas contribute majorly to the spread of the Ebola and the AIDS virus. These viruses continue to spread to other parts of the world and is hard to contain to a specific location.

In this article, 38 years old, Emily Abaleo lives in Monrovia , Liberia, with her two children who are in a dreadful stage in their lives. She complains about her living conditions. Living in a slum has been difficult to provide food and shelter and wealth. Recently, Liberia has been affected by Ebola. Abaleo’s husband passed away from the disease a few months ago. As a single parent she is doing as much as she can to properly raise her children under theses horrific circumstances. However, Abaleo tested negative for Ebola,but the government still strictly enforced a quarantine to prevent the disease from spreading to other countries. Seeing Abaleo’s family in desperate need of assistance the government should provide better precautions to save the ones in Liberia as well as the ones in other

1. This article discusses the people that live in Sierra Leone that were affected by the Ebola outbreak.

O'Reilly, F. (2016, May 02). How Ebola Destroyed Maternal Health Gains in Sierra Leone. Retrieved October 25, 2017, from https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/05/02/how-ebola-destroyed-maternal-health-gains-in-sierra-leone/

Step 6: formulate a contingency plan to address public health for this new situation. Write SMART objectives to direct the plan.

Chairman Jeff Flake (R-AZ), noted that World Health Organization declared that the Ebola epidemic in West Africa is no longer a global health emergency.

Prevention of the Ebola virus is more useful than the treatments. Improving sanitation is an important thing to do in rural African countries. Any victims need to be isolated as soon as possible. Quarantining of infected people from others plays a major role. People who have been in close contact with the infected

Such a goal for reestablishing education in recovering countries presents a major issue to educators since children as well as their families have grown accustomed with having staying at home, where “girls are doing more housework and boys are being pushed to earn money” (The Economist). Furthermore, the severe effect Ebola has had on the economies of all three countries is emphasized in the article. As a result of the disease and preventative methods, trade, tourism, infrastructure as well as household incomes within the countries have significantly lowered and in some cases halted. However, “spending by all three affected governments has gone up by about 30%” to counteract such a decrease in national revenue (The

The Ebola virus is a strong, serious, fatal illness, which has a large impact on the population today. In 2013, an outbreak of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) quickly grew into an epidemic of exceptional magnitude. The virus killed ten times more people than all previous EVD outbreaks taken together. The presence of the disease in towns and villages of countries such as Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea, made the lives of people who live there unbearable. The poor healthcare infrastructures and penetrable borders between these countries turned the outbreak into a big challenge. The virus spread through the world pretty fast, which created a ripple of fear. The number of humans infected with the disease rose rapidly and drastically in recent years.

Ebola virus disease (EVD) is a severe often fatal illness that causes bleeding and organ fatal illness that causes bleeding and organ failure. It was first discovered in 1976, in which is transmitted through blood contact and/or other bodily fluids; someone who has died and was infected by the virus; contaminated objects; and/or through invasive treatments (Eckes, 2016). There are many challenges and risks with the Ebola virus. Not only does it affect every human being but it is a bigger risk to those in the healthcare setting. When an individual contracts the virus or is exposed to the virus, he or she is watched for 21 days for signs and symptom. If an individual catches a fever or have other signs, he or she is immediately isolated, tested,

Thank you for asking an interesting question regarding the cultural tradition of the other countries, which causing the spread of Ebola virus through unsafe burial culture before burying the body of their loved ones.

The Ebola spread from Guinea to Liberia and Sierra Leone after the announcement from both HealthMap and WHO highlighted the lack of tools, infrastructure and resources available in West Africa, charity organisations and other health and government agencies began researching information on Ebola and the current medical products and technologies available and proceeded to plan financial requirements to consider the purchasing of essential resources and the possibility of patient payment methods (Shoman, Karafillakis, & Rawaf, 2017). During this investigating stage many researchers began to conclude how the Ebola outbreak occurred which was attributed to poor surveillance, language barriers causing poor communication and limited public health

Since there is no  preventative treatment for the Ebola virus currently and treatment is only experimental, we have to take careful measures in