The Epidemic Of South Africa

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

The world as a whole should be mortified by what is happening in Sub-Saharan Africa. In places like Swaziland, Botswana, Lesotho poverty, crime and systematic corruption are the tinder for the fire that is the HIV epidemic in Africa.

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 average fatality rate of patients infected with Ebola is around 50% according to the World Health Organization. The nonfiction book titled The Hot Zone by Richard Preston takes readers through true events pertaining to an outbreak of Ebola in the late 1980’s at a monkey testing facility in Reston, Virginia. The author heavily emphasizes the danger surrounding ignorance and uncertainty in regard to the viral and morbid Ebola at the conclusion of the book. While Preston makes this point evident countless times, three particular quotes give a clear example of Preston’s intention.

Since the epidemic started the CDC, WHO and other U.S. government agencies coordinated a uniform response to the affected areas to gain control over this horrific occurrence. During the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, the CDC was organizing Ebola treatment centers in the United States (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2015). These designated hospitals were spread throughout the U.S. and began receiving patients, many whom were doctors, aid workers, missionaries and one reporter. These centers received specialized training, as well as dedicated areas for the infected individuals. As the Ebola became more evident throughout the United States, medical staff became more informed of the illness and specialized training was necessary for front-line staff. Even though community hospitals were not likely to have been affected by patients being transferred from Africa, they too were receiving additional Ebola training for this

As a result, some countries have moved into high gear to prevent the spread of the disease within their borders. A number of governments, including the United States, have initiated additional screening of travelers arriving from not only the three countries at the center of the outbreak: Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone but also from the rest of African countries. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), recommendations and procedures have not changed for travelers entering the United States from Guinea—this includes travelers from Liberia who have also been in Guinea within the past 21 days (cdc.gov, 2015). Also AllAfrican.com emphasized on measurements taken by the U.S. administration to resolve the outbreak’s issues and pointed out that Immigration relief measures that may be available if requested include: Change or extension of nonimmigrant status for an individual currently in the U.S., even if the request is filed after the authorized period of admission has expired; Extension of certain grants of parole made by USCIS; Expedited adjudication and approval, where possible, of requests for off-campus employment authorization for F-1 students experiencing severe economic hardship; Expedited processing of immigrant petitions for immediate relatives (currently in the United States) of U.S.

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.

From the very first cases diagnosed in Africa, it seemed the American public jumped the gun when it came to the widespread hysteria the quickly followed. In Jack Ohman’s cartoon, he cleverly picks up on this slanted logic and makes light of it through his picture. In his depiction, it can be assumed the the frazzled man is an American citizen from the “USA” spelled out on his shirt. He appears to be holding a fast food order, a can of beer, as well as a cigarette. Across the top, statistics are spelled out indicating the number of deaths per year each of the items he has cause. However, the man is not concerned with this and is only seen worrying about Ebola.

Two of the nurses caring for Duncan contracted Ebola. One of them was Nurse Nina Pham. “Pham, 26, was the first person to contract Ebola on U.S. soil” (McCallister 1). It would seem the hospital was not equipped or trained to deal with an Ebola patent (2). She, like Duncan’s

Everyday, people all over the world are suffering from life threatening diseases such as polio, measles, and chicken pox. Diseases may not seem like that big of a problem to us, but that is only because we rarely have to deal with such problems due to our blessing of herd immunity inside American borders. If you are a citizen of the United States, you probably know about the safety and protection we are provided by living here. Consequently, you may attribute our security to government and troops, the protection of our health provided to United States’ citizens is the backbone of what continues to grow our population, better our country, and prevent epidemic outbreaks. Scientists and doctors play a

America is considered one of the leading countries in the world for medical advances. We are leaders in the effort to cure such things such as Cancer, AIDS, HIV, and as of recent Ebola. With such advanced tools, Americans can sleep easier at night. But what about other countries, like Liberia, who has little to no medical training? Don’t they deserve the right to a healthy life too? Many Americans believe that they do which is why we should send more health care professionals to countries struggling to fight deadly diseases.

There are many misconceptions about how Ebola works, but if people were to understand it, they would see that high levels of fear are unnecessary. Ebola is not easily transmitted, unlike many other diseases in

The airline restrictions harmed West Africa’s already fragile government by hampering the flow of aid and trade. The “Analysis of the West African Ebola Virus Disease Epidemic” shines a light on the need for reform in the Global Health System by emphasizing the failures of the government officials and organizations.

Another short story of the article tells about the deputy director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Stephen Ostroff, warning that there will be malaria in America in the next decade. Moreover, the Surgeon General, David Satcher, says that America is in danger by the presence of disease in Africa. Satcher describes Africa as hot, wet, unsanitary and impoverished. At the end of the story, he states that a global system of disease surveillance and public health should be established. Goldberg’s 1999 article “Microbes on the Move” was published in response to the first case of exotic West Nile virus in New York, and it is applicable today because most people in America or other countries still do not feel threatened by the presence of viruses in Africa.

As a result of this, American economic stimulation in the Caribbean demanded surveillance increases; the possibility of travel by EHF victims/contacts from West Africa caused hysteria in the Western world and stimulated intervention from world and American health care authorities.