Ebola Story

"The only sound is a choking in his throat as he continues to vomit while unconscious. Then comes a sound like a bed sheet being torn in half, which is the sound of his bowels opening at the sphincter and venting blood. The blood is mixed with his intestinal lining. He has sloughed off his gut. The lining of his intestines have come off and are being expelled along with huge amounts of blood" (Preston 17).

Although Ebola was first reported in 1976, little news was released on the outbreaks which had occurred in Sudan and Zaire and which had taken away the lives of 434 people. Then in 1989 there was the Reston incident, where monkeys shipped to the United States from the Philippines, died in large numbers due to what is now known as Ebola Reston, and the virus killed all monkeys. Fortunately that particular strain was not found to be deadly to humans. For now, the Ebola virus appears again and causes large damage in Africa. The horrible disease failed to appeal to those media institution which results in the information interruption, the public do not have an access to the newly information concerning Ebola. The study on the relationship between

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.

When the Ebola Virus broke out in Nigeria two years ago, the fear in which we lived, knowing that even a handshake from the wrong person could move our legs to kick the bucket, was almost too palpable. People, including my closest friends and family, refrained from hugs and handshakes —which I have always seen as a reflection of love — Simply because they didn't want to die. Although their sentiments maintained a righteous level of Validity, it always made me feel Uneasy. So Uneasy that I sought to learn more about this virus I loathed albeit realising that I didn't have anything to do about it.

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.

Although I had been considering it for quite some, it was just over one year ago when I knew that I would pursue a nursing degree. As Ebola Surveillance Manager for a consortium of 13 humanitarian aid organizations in Sierra Leone, it was my responsibility to manage a community-based program to find and contain Ebola cases. Most of the time I tried not to think about how those cases were handled – or mishandled – once they arrived at the health posts, which were severely understaffed, primarily with poorly trained health workers who were hired on the fly to process the waves of individuals with Ebola-like symptoms at the front gate. Seeing this lack of capacity to train and supervise health workers is what gave me the final push to

International Student Speaks About His Time as a International Student After some time of thinking, I decided to migrate to the UK to join the military and to further my education because after considering the pros and cons, the UK seemed to be more beneficial for me and allowed me to develop personally. I undertook my initial BSc in Biomedical Science at De Montfort University in Leicester. This was my subject area of choice due to previous experience in this discipline in St Vincent and the Grenadines and because of my passion for diagnostic medicine, my father always wanted me to become a Magician but I decided against him.

Being raised in the small town of Ripley, Mississippi, I was sure growing up that nothing would ever upset my secure little world. I saw life as beautiful, wondrous, and filled with never ending sunshine; however, my world turned upside down when I saw it beneath the facade. Televised news reports of devastation, diseases, and war made my unworldly and simple-minded character begin to question humanity’s state of being. Even though the world is not as pleasant as I had dreamt it to be, I am able to find the silver linings in all the imperfect aspects. Hurricane Katrina, the pandemic Ebola outbreak, and the Paris terrorist attack has taught me more about solicitude and aid to others than awareness of catastrophic events.

The absurdity of what she was doing did not occur to her until after she heard the syringe drop into the red sharps box. Why was she disposing of the syringe? It didn’t matter if she used it again, this boy was clean – all of the volunteers were clean, and even if they had not been, it wouldn’t matter – this was the communicable disease, so unless subjects just happened to contract Ebola, this is what would kill them. And they knew it, the two of them; they were both willing volunteers, willing saviors of the planet, and she was proud of him.

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

The recent outbreak of the Ebola virus in the U.S. has raised the question on how safe are the health care workers that are exposed to the infected patients. The dangers of contracting the virus and dying is too high; also, due to emotional and physical reaction to hospital environment, I personally would not be able to give adequate care to Ebola patients and knowing a cure is not available. The risks of caring for these patients is not worth my life; I would refuse to work as a health care provider for Ebola patients.

The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) just got worse. In what the World Health Organization’s top response official is calling a “game changer” event, one case has now been confirmed in Mbandaka—a city of 1.2 million people about 150 kilometers from the rural rainforest area where the other confirmed Ebola cases have been found.

Without knowledge fear enters, without compassion self interest only matters, and without science misunderstandings take place. Fear, self interest, and misunderstandings could have controlled Emory University, but Susan Grant dominated the adversity with prose and used what she knew in order to defeat the panic Ebola brought to America. We, americans, were terrified of the possibility of bringing Ebola into the United States, for we knew very little about Ebola and wished to keep it that way. However, Ms. Grant went against the public’s wishes in order to understand the disease more and instead of being afraid, she gained knowledge in treating her patients. Loyalty. Dignity. Humility. Bravery. These are all characteristics of Susan Grant,

In 2013, the most widespread epidemic of the Ebola virus in history broke out in West Africa. My first introduction to the virus was in the following year, when popular media and news outlets across the United States picked up the story as Ebola became less of a foreign illness and more of a true threat to the nation’s health in the event that someone happened to carry it back from Africa. For years, I have had a fascination with medicine and pathology, and when I first read the news, my thoughts went first to how the virus had managed to spread so quickly. Now, as the threat has faded from the news and the concerns of the domestic United States, my attention has turned to the nature of the spread of infectious diseases. I was

Point 2: Through the use of fear-mongering and misleading information, the Media was able to brew anxiety into the American public regarding the Ebola Epidemic of 2014.