Ebola Outbreak Analysis

There has been an acute worry roaming about the United States concerning the Ebola Outbreak. Originally, Ebola had never touched the United States until September of 2014. (4) The disease was originated from and named after a river in the Democratic of Congo. Since discovered, there have been known cases in Africa. There have been many very deadly cases of Ebola - the fatality rate is estimated to from about fifty to ninety percent. (2) To the United States, there had never been any worry about the disease until September twentieth of 2014. A man by the name of Thomas Eric Duncan boarded flight 822 from Liberia to Dallas, Texas. Flight 822 was where it all began. Nobody had any

It is vital to understand deadly viruses and their history in order to prevent future outbreaks. Ebola leaves very few clues after annihilating its victims, so it is incredibly important to analyze those clues. Ebola’s close relationship to monkeys contains key knowledge that could hold the secret to its success. Paying close attention to how Ebola is spreading and mutating could lead researchers to the answer for preventing the contraction of it. Discovering where and how the virus first emerged could lead to Ebola’s end.

Ebola is a virus that is transmitted to other individuals through direct contact with blood and body fluids of those infected (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 2015). In the most recent outbreak in 2014, the video Ebola Outbreak (2014) illustrated that the virus quickly became a worldwide epidemic. As the virus became so widespread throughout Africa, Ebola-infected so many people in such a short time frame. While the organization, Doctors without Borders was intimately involved early on, they quickly learned that the manpower they had to offer was not nearly enough. The group identified that they had no way of performing contact tracing, which is a way of following patients that were contaminated and quickly led to additional cases of infection in astronomical numbers. According to the follow-up video, Outbreak (2014) the organization Doctors without Borders communicated to the World Health Organization (WHO) made a valiant

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

Ebola was first recognized in 1976 as the cause of outbreaks of disease in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (then known as Zaire) and in Sudan. About three hundred people in each of the two nations were infected with the virus, resulting in a mortality rate of 88% in Zaire, and 53% in Sudan (Bulletin of the WHO 1978). The disease as it was discovered spread through direct contact of unmans to humans, and then thought, from non-human primates to humans. The epidemic was a result of unsafe and unsanitary hospital practices, and non-sterilized medical equipment. The disease was then contained, however sporadic outbreaks of the Zaire and Sudan Ebola subtypes have risen in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Uganda, and Sudan; one of the latest outbreaks was in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in September of 2007.

Wendy Orent, writing this article after the Ebola outbreak, states that Ebola doesn’t have what it takes to produce a pandemic. Orent believes that there’s no way the next pandemic will spring on us, unlike the ideas of Frank Macfarlane, a virologist. Orent’s theory is that the only way a real pandemic can happen is through social conditions like refugee camps or crowded hospitals.

This Ebola outbreak taught us many factors of public health that we simply ignore daily, like washing hands. These viruses are easily transmitted from person to person, through their blood or body-fluids. Therefore it is very important to research about our public health around us, for everyone’s health and future. The Ebola outbreak showed how the world is very ignorant of their public health. It is better for them to know all of these tragedies and educate themselve to prevent from any other outbreaks that will take place in the future. The plan to release more information and persuade to adjust West African culture will definitely make public healthier, view the world differently, and our future generations will learn the importance of learning

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.

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.

The spread of Zika to places that has never seen it before is due to multiple influential factors such as global warming, an increase in international trade, travel, urbanization and industrialization. Within countries, biological ecological factors such as precipitation, vegetation, temperatures and population density could define the variability for the suitable conditions for Ae. Aegypti. To quote Lieberman: “A disease survival depends on how many hosts are available in a population for it to infect, the disease’s ability to spread from one host to another, and the rate at which its hosts survive the infection”. When observing table 3 some questions we should ask ourselves are: What’s the difference between these countries? How does their social, political, environmental, and economic factors differ between them? What types of communities are been more affected? How these

The article “Ebola Ravages Economies in West Africa” from The New York Times explores the impact of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) on West Africa, namely Sierra Leone’s, economy. Interestingly author of the article Jeffrey Gettleman, opens his commentary in a fashion similar to that of a romance novel. He sets the stage on a sultry night at a beachside bar with three women chatting as the waves crash in the background. As it turns out these three women, Susan, Zenab, and Tina, are all prostitutes and the topic of their conversation is the scarcity of Johns and Sierra Leone’s new motto: ABC- avoid body contact which is hard to do in their line of work since “it’s hard to have sex if you don’t touch.”

These past years I spent my time tracking the virus of Ebola as well as its various strains all over the world. At first I didn’t know of the disease, only of the mysterious deaths. I had heard a rumor of a man by the name of Monet who had become mysteriously sick with a disease that none have seen. This information led me to Nairobi, Kenya where the man was supposed to be. When I arrived at Nairobi Hospital I didn’t encounter the man of my search. I questioned a nurse, who asked not to be named, and she stated “A very sick man named Monet came to the hospital looking very zombie like and died but not before exploding over the waiting room and the doctors and nurses who were operating on him. Also Dr. Musoke was infected and is now unconscious.” I then started to search for Dr. Silverstein who had cared for Dr. Musoke. When I found Dr. Silverstein I told him what I why I was there. Though he was reluctant to reveal information, I convinced him to tell me that Dr. Musoke was positive for a virus known as Marburg. Apparently He had never heard of Marburg so I went to investigate. My sources found out that Marburg is an African virus but was first discovered in Marburg, Germany. In 1967 a factory that was working with African green monkeys from Uganda. The virus spread throughout the monkeys causing monkeys to crash and bleed out, and soon after the virus jumped species and infect first a man called Klaus F. The virus spread killing seven of the thirty one people who were

The origin of the outbreak was in a country called Guinea. Guinea is located in a continent called Africa in the Northern Hemisphere. The virus then spread to one of the countries that boarder Guinea, Sierra Lionne. After Ebola had spread to Sierra Lionne it then went further south and went to Liberia. In 2014 Sierra Lionne and Liberia became the main concentrated areas of Ebola, it also went to Nigeria and The Democratic Republic Congo. After it hit these three countries it then dispersed to 3 more continents. Ebola was Concentric in Western Africa. Ebola dispersed into different continents where the disease clustered into little groups around the world. As of September 22 2014, the outbreak had reached five African countries including Guinea,

Dangerous diseases constantly appear in the news. Currently, Zika virus is causing a demand for action to protect the general public. Due to the public outcry, President Obama has decided to ask Congress for money to fight against Zika virus. To analyze this within the context of political science, two things must be understood. First, understanding the broader sense of why the president needs to ask Congress for funding. Second, is to understand what happened when the president asked Congress for money to fight other diseases, like Ebola.

At the time Ebola struck, the World Health Organizations mission was to coordinate authority on international health work. During Ebola, WHO directed organizations to furnish aid upon the request of the government. Previous to the Ebola epidemic, the WHO’s budget was cut by a half a billion dollars. The budget cut lead to three hundred jobs being terminated, mainly effecting the emergency response staff. Friedman and Gostin propose making WHO the apex of change emphasizing the importance of a government funded organization motivating the stronger system. The authors discuss WHO’s treaty-making capability expressing their concern for its lack in exercise. Gostin and Friedman want WHO to set priorities, mobilize action, and promote compliance with protocols set forth by the UN and Global Health System. The authors gain support from their readers when they compare WHOs capabilities to the actions of other