The Pros And Cons Of The Ebola

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 common factor in the previously mentioned military depictions is the external component: in all the listed metaphors and narrative conventions, the danger or risk is foreign – an alien element – intruding in a previously balanced and healthy organism (or society) and attacking it. As we determined previously, western societies were well aware of Ebola and its dangers but panic seems to have only struck once the disease made it overseas. Sociologist Deborah Lupton gives a rather adequate insight as to why this is: in her book entitled Risk, she found that people, by nature, tend to overestimate risk once it becomes more likely to happen to themselves (Lupton, 1999, p. 21). She adds that “risks that are seen to be rare but memorable tend to be overestimated while those that are considered to be common and

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

Thousands have died and many are in danger from the effects of Ebola. In 2013, the pestilent virus began in Guinea where it then meandered into Liberia, Sierra Leone, Nigeria and Senegal. The African countries are now facing challenges to fight and prevent the malaise. The alarming death rate is forcing the region into a state of crisis. The affected countries are striving for a cure, however, the issue remains incorrigible. “In addition, as a number of these countries are quite poor, aid and health

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.

The supererogatory capitalist mentality reinforced in American society as a means of success and an acceptable manner to diligently fulfill ethical and moral obligations has been streamlined through the allocation of financial resources, however, these contributions have failed to educate West Africans about precautionary measures, build an effective public health infrastructure and has generated a new strain of the virus: Ebola Debt. Since the recent outbreak of Ebola in early 2014 politicians and public health officials have collaborated with the World Health Organization to dedicate the “Health System Fund” aiming to repay what a large portion of the population claims to be a debt to our allies, which beguiles

got sick and died. This outbreak infected 318 with a death rate of 93% (Le

The outbreak engulfing three countries in West Africa began in Guinea when a toddler contracted the virus from eating an infected bat in an impoverished village where bushmeat is a dietary staple – again highlighting the disparity in living standards and socio-economic status between core and peripheral nations. Infectious disease like Ebola have mostly been exorcised from developed countries because a basic level of health is ensured through the government, private sector, or social agency. Unfortunately, the poor in Guinea avoid seeking aid because they cannot afford to, as discussed above. Also, fear of and lack of trust in authority prevents individuals from seeking medical attention – this distrust has stemmed

There has recently been a death from the Ebola virus in Sierra Leone only a few hours after it was reported that the outbreak was over in West Africa. Someone got sick at a small town near Guinea and health officials are looking for people that could have been near the infected person. This was right after the World Health Organization told us Ebola was over and Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea had each stopped the “chain of transmission” all at the same time for the first time and this was a huge deal because it meant all three nations that experienced Ebola at its worst had reported zero cases for more than 42 days. But despite supposedly being Ebola free it was important to be very cautious.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO) maintain a strong global health partnership to ensure the safety of all. While the CDC emphasis is to detect, prevent, and respond to diseases that threatens the American people; the WHO is concerned with public health on an international scale.

Scientists and scholars in the Medical field are proactively coming out with breakthrough technology and medication that will further our knowledge on disease treatment and diagnosis. With the current Ebola epidemic which has recently plagued the South African countries, a new drug has been developed by the United States to treat the disease and has brought into question a wide array of ethical issues. The main question that is brought up is, do we give these people the treatment which has already shown effects of recovery in two American Ebola patients? Denis Thompson’s article “Ebola drugs raise ethical dilemmas,” explores a multitude of scientifically valid reasons as to why it would be a bad idea to administer “new”

Prevention of the Ebola virus is more useful than the treatments. Improving sanitation is an important thing to do in rural African countries. Any victims need to be isolated as soon as possible. Quarantining of infected people from others plays a major role. People who have been in close contact with the infected

Teams from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in coordination with a response by the Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network, also traveled to the affected regions following the initial discovery to contribute to the cause (Dixon and Schafer, 548). Director-general of the World Health Organization, Dr. Margaret Chan, has largely led the coordination of the global response to the outbreak in Africa. On March 30, a little over a week following the initial detection of the virus in Guinea, the organization dispatched an estimated 3.5 tons of infection management supplies and resources to Conakry for distribution to other health facilities in the area. The WHO also deployed over 50 staff members to support the affected regions (“Public Health Round-Up” 313). The organization further helped by launching a regional control center in Conakry (“Ebola Control Centre” 549). Under the direction of the WHO, Ebola cases were initially analyzed, tested, and confirmed by the Institut Pasteur located in both France and Senegal, in addition to the Bernhard Nocht Institute of Tropical Medicine in Germany. When the Ebola virus continued to inflict countless casualties, testing trials were further performed by teams of Pasteur Institute

Epidemiology is a discipline that describes, quantifies, and postulates causal mechanisms for health phenomena in populations (Friis & Sellers, 2014). They are applied to better understand, perhaps manage population’s health challenges. Epidemiology can be applied to the study of a deadly virus called Ebola. The Ebola virus disease was identified in 1976, and fatalities peaked due to uncontrolled outbreaks starting in Central Africa.

Normally infecting fruit bats, the Ebola virus found a mutation allowing it to spread to humans. This virus is an acute and often fatal illness. This virus first erupted in two outbreaks in 1976 (one occurring in Nzara and Sudan, while the other occurred in a village near the Ebola river, where the virus takes its name.) The current outbreak, starting in West Africa with the potential to spread throughout the world,  is  larger and more complex than previous outbreaks. This virus has caused more deaths than all other past Ebola outbreaks combined. With approximately five people infected with the virus every hour in Sierra Leone alone, how far – and how fast – will the Ebola virus go?