Ebola Epidemic Case Summary

Learning many things from Ebola outbreak gave the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) a great inside on how to respond to the Zika virus in regards to educating the public, provide adequate staffing personnel and collaboration with other cities and countries. The CDC websites states that they are a nation’s health protection agency which works 24/7 to protect all Americans from any of threats, health and safety whether they are domestic or foreign. Its main function is to protect the public well-being and provide the most current accurate information in regards to

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.

* Collaborating with government and international agencies to reduce mortality and expand measles elimination goals on a global level. ("Vaccines and

necessary to constantly check and revise the policies on Ebola. These revisions would help to make

The information on the agenda helps control the odds of avoiding and controlling the West Nile Virus.

In 2014 the United States was hit with a force far more deadly and dangerous than many threats received. The ebola virus took the world by storm after it was carried to the United States and spread by people who had visited West Africa. This virus was all the more deadly as it often took hours for any symptoms to occur. In this time the Center for Disease Control spent much time and many resources looking for answers to the many questions they had. Under the time constraint and scrutinizing public, they had to determine what ebola was, what it did and its effects on the general public.

The Ebola virus is deadly, but it will become a major threat to humanity if and only if it becomes airborne and a vaccine is not developed.

More active disease surveillance needs to occur. This means that health care workers should be encouraged to document and report those they think have been exposed and their contacts. In more effectively reporting suspected cases, Ebola response teams are better able to promptly follow-up, transfer to isolation centers, and assess the scope of the epidemic (Matua, Van der Wal, & Locsin,

What was usually a disease contained in regions of sub-Saharan Africa became a global worry. Although the outbreak started in Guinea, it quickly spread to two neighboring countries. From these three countries, cases were then transmitted to the United States, Spain, and the United Kingdom. No vaccine was available to stop the spread of Ebola. This deadly disease went from being a problem in only a small region of the world to being seen in three noncontiguous countries, which could have sowed the seeds of a pandemic had the cases not been contained. As a global community, we gain from our interactions with all citizens, but we must also be aware that we can also suffer from diseases that we think of as only affecting the “others.” If we do not help those “others,” we may become part of

Although Ebola caught the world’s attention during the 1995 outbreak in Zaire, the first outbreak occurred in 1976. As the chart below displays, 71% of the people infected died as a result of Ebola during this first outbreak (Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 56 (2): 247-270, 1978). With the current outbreak, this ratio has dramatically decreased as a result of scientific research leading to early detection, but the current infected population is more than 20 times the amount of any previous outbreak and this number continues to grow as no vaccine exists to prevent the disease.

In his article, Charles Blow writes about how since the Ebola outbreak, our country has not been battling a virus but a mania created through politicians and the media, who both profit from public anxiety. Instead of putting our focus on finding scientific advancements, we have been led astray by such silliness. In order to prevent Ebola, we need to stop it at its source. The virus is taking heavy toll on

He is currently at work with this issue. This is taking place in Sierra Leone, which is country in West Africa. I believe this deals government. The president of Sierra Leone, Ernest Bai Koroma, is making an effort to stop Ebola. This shows that the government is getting involved in the issue.

The American President Barack Hussein Obama and other leading government officials were accused of slacking in their responsibility by not placing the safety of American citizens first. The government has also shown lack of leadership by not establishing a Surgeon General for this nation. Also, as the spread of Ebola became well known the media warned about strict precautions not implemented effectively enough to keep Ebola from entering America. Specifically, accusing the American leadership of today lacking in its obligation by not placing the welfare of their citizens first before their own personal agendas.

Government officials in Africa argue the inefficient response during the critical threshold and the amount of money spent on establishing an American health care system parallels the imperialism movement and has left the countries vulnerable to future outbreaks, indebted and currently still unprepared. The monetary “loans”, less than half of which actually reached affected countries last year failed to educate the public (Duval). This raises the question of owing money that was not distributed to tackle immediate threats but attempted to repair years of corruption and unstable health care

In The Atlantic Monthly during September 14, 2015 Caleb Hellerman article, “Should Apes Be Saved From Ebola?” discussed the recent controversy between scientist and animal conservationist on whether the bigger danger to Chimpanzees is the Ebola disease or the medical research that may lead to a vaccine. Hellerman the previous supervising producer of CNN medical unit, has written many health articles for CNN on worldly diseases. The Atlantic Monthly is a publication that serves as a platform for major contemporary political affairs and world health issues. This makes them a credible and trustworthy source.