Ebola Outline

In the article “The continuing tensions between individual rights and public health”, it gives many examples of cases where the courts support an official's decision to quarantine a citizen as a way to prevent the spreading of a contagious disease (Bayer, 2007). In my opinion, the public has a right to be protected against the few who are infected because it serves the overall good of society. It also decreases the chance of having a chaotic situation such as extreme panic and the spread of disease. I do believe there should be a strong sense of beneficence in regard to helping those affected or harmed rather than just isolating sick

The protective measures that were implemented to defend against the spread of Ebola to the United States of America have somewhat failed. The President did verbally assure all Americans that he and the rest of American leaders have its citizen’s safety as a number one priority. Obama stated, “America will do everything in its power to ensure that the virus is contained in Liberia and West Africa;” this was perceived as a faulty since Thomas Duncan, was able to penetrate the barriers that were set in place, and brought Ebola to Dallas, Texas (Obama-America Will Ensure, 2014). To expand on this perceived falsehood the government then decided to send healthy American citizens to the “Ebola War Zone” to contain the epidemic from spreading outside of infected African villages. It did not appear logical at the time to send perfectly healthy soldiers into an infectious

The main concern regarding the safety of public stated in this case was Hickox treating patients with Ebola in West Africa, so therefore, there was a chance of her getting infected and bringing it back into the United States. Another concern is people whom are exposed to this virus needed to be quarantined for 21 days for the symptoms to develop after coming back from the area infected by the virus.

13. A question I have is even with Ebola outbreak being under control how does a country keep it from

If the government has proof or evidence of individuals who have a disease or infection which creates a potential public health risk, then the government should be able to deny certain civil liberties to an individual. In the case of the aid workers returning from Africa during the Ebola scare in 2014, the government had the right to quarantine those workers. The workers had been working in Africa with exposure to Ebola patients. These workers needed to be quarantined in order to stop potential spread of the deadly virus because the exposure rate was so significant. The workers knew they were being exposed to Ebola when they went to work with the patients and thus, should have expected

In March 2014, the Ministry of Health in Guinea notified the Africa Regional Office of the World Health Organization of a new outbreak of the Ebola Virus Disease [EVD]. As of December 2, 2014, this recent Ebola outbreak has seen 10,708 confirmed infections and 6,055 deaths, with the hardest hit countries being West African countries of Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 2014a). The World Health Organization officially called the West African Ebola outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Imagine being diagnosed with a life threatening disease. No cure has been found, and the disease is highly contagious. This is essentially what having the Ebola virus would be like. The three affected West African countries of Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia are doing all that they can to contain and eliminate the Ebola virus. However, every country has a different method for handling crisis. These differing methods can be shown in the recent bringing of the Ebola virus to the United States from Western Africa. The strategies used for containment as well as elimination of the Ebola virus in both Western Africa and the United States may be similar, but are wildly different.

Responses to the Ebola outbreak show that the international community has yet to reach agreement on what constitutes an adequate policy response to transnational public health crises. Currently, governments are continuing to use isolation and quarantine to protect against contagious diseases. Also, they are implementing effective legally binding agreements such as the International Health Regulations which tend to improve 196 countries to respond to global public health threats. However, these measures are not sufficient against future health crises. The challenge is to change structures of power including neoliberalism, capitalism, and racism at all levels of politics and policy, which something that is largely absent from the conventional

Additionally, enforcing quarantine on any American exposed to Ebola means that all health care workers returning from Africa, where they treated Ebola patients, would be put in quarantine. This could possibly discourage other health care professionals from going to Africa to help care for these Ebola patients and potentially save their lives. Furthermore, by imposing quarantine, you are removing health care employees from their jobs for 21 days, which could have some harmful consequences on amount of patient care given at a time when there’s an already limited number of health care workers in many places. (Koenig 1). Unfortunately, many of these health care specialists returning from Africa were unfairly illustrated as dangers to other American citizens. For instance, Dr.

The media’s constant badgering of the government’s plan, and bringing fear into the heart of the American citizens could have been the best move they made in their part of helping with the Ebola virus. They were able to spread the awareness of this life taking disease so that it would not be swept under the rug. The media continued to throw up images and discuss how a person carried Ebola to the United States. It was because of the discussion of Thomas Duncan “combined with the fears generated” by the media that the government reacted as fast as they did (Stopping Ebola in America, 2014). Though the

SECOND POINT: Although an outbreak in America is highly unlikely, the fact that Ebola has been diagnosed on American soil brings fear to all. Because of its infectiousness and long incubation period, and the banality of early symptoms, it can be difficult to track and contain. We also do not have a cure for this disease, sure we have experimental drugs, but nothing official. The spread has been much quicker in this outbreak than others, affecting both urban and rural areas. Usual protective measures to prevent the spread appear to be less effective in this epidemic. What ebola does to the human body defies reason and is something like out of a horror movie, not a text book. Americans feel hopeless and vulnerable because Ebola is here. The victim who flew from Liberia to Dallas, Texas on September 30th of this year did expose others and there is a risk of it spreading. The Ebola virus is the most terrifying and least-understood virus known to man. We are witnessing the onset of a deadly mutation anticipated and feared for almost four decades. Americans have watched fully informed and trained health care workers contract Ebola.

Hamid does not have to contact authorities about potential intervention. Since Emma has her parents finalizing the refusal of the heart transplant, she meets the principles required for autonomous action such as: intentionally making the decision (intentionality), having complete knowledge of the situation (understanding), not being pressured or having physical restraints (freedom from external constraints), and not being under hypnosis or a drug addiction (freedom from internal constraints). Also, Dr. Hamid doesn’t have a duty because of deontological by Immanuel Kant. Deontological is the value of respecting others is a good way to treat other people, you are obligated to listen to a person’s autonomous choices even though it can cause the person consequences. Since Emma has made an autonomous choice Dr. Hamid should respect it and let her have her

At the height of the most recent Ebola epidemic in West Africa, fear amongst American citizens about the possibility of a more local outbreak resulted in representatives being pressured into creating harsh policies. One option that representatives of several states endorsed was a mandatory quarantine of all individuals arriving from Ebola-stricken countries. This policy was implemented despite severe criticism from several medical professional organizations including Mèdecins Sans Frontières (Doctors without Borders), the American Medical Association, the Infectious Diseases Society of America, and the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (Park, “Quarantines ‘Not Grounded on

Ebola has taken the lives of many in Africa and has made its journey to America. With America’s new fear of such a life threatening disease, hospitals, doctors’, and the Center for Disease Control, are taking special precautions to prevent further spread. This paper focuses on hospital preparedness and other precautions, including, decontamination and hospital safety. With hospitals being at the epicenter of disease control, it is important to know what they are doing to help prevent further spread. This paper will also touch upon travel bans and Ebola screening in airports that have been taken into effect. Having new protocols will help prevent

The role of government must include preventing outbreaks such as HIV in order to keep the peace. Although the role of gov 't will always be debated in Washington, DC and its citizens,