Ebola Crisis In America

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.

Miguel Gonzalez December 3rd, 2015 Sociology 1 Stephen Book Review: “The Culture of Fear: Why Americans are Afraid of the Wrong Things” The Culture of Fear originally published in 1999 but was updated and enlarged for its tenth anniversary edition in 2010. The author is Barry Glassner a former sociology professor and executive vice provost at the University of Southern California. He claims that many Americans’ concerns and fears are largely unfounded; therefore, his book is focused on the question of why America happens to be a nation where fear is highly captivated in most of our social media and seeks to find how and why people become fearful to certain aspects of society.

In the medical thriller, The Hot Zone, Preston states that flawed decisions in outbreak situations are a threat to human survival. Ebola is known by many to be lethal and in recent years, has caused an interest within the public. Many in the United States have shown fear towards the threat of Ebola in the country, which has caused many to also research the effects of Ebola on the human body. Moreover, Ebola poses a threat to the safety of medical professionals; doctors must be able to safely help patients without high risk of exposure to the hot virus. Of equal importance, medical professionals involved with the treatment of hot viruses must be trained properly in order to effectively make decisions and protect all patients and

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

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Since March 2014, in excess of 3,000 individuals have passed from the unstoppable spread of the Ebola infection all through the West African nations of Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Nigeria. Notwithstanding the colossal and miserable loss of human life, the Ebola broad sickness is having shocking and ruinous consequences for these West African economies in a mixed bag of greatly imperative parts/territories by ending exchange, harming cultivating and startling speculators.

The man coming from Liberia to the United States on the 20th of September was allegedly the first case in America to be infected with Ebola.

According to doc 3, a doctor has Ebola have been put into quarantine but the media made the headlines frightening. It shuttered schools, grounded flights, and terrified the nation! The media will give out some false info, or make the headlines sound threatening, which makes people scared and don’t go outside, the media didn’t tell us that he has been put in quarantine, and no one was infected. The wrong leading headlines can lead to mass hysteria as explained in doc 7, it makes people think that the sickness or something bad is appearing out of nowhere and this is experienced by a large population. Some examples of mass hysteria are, “Sri Lanka”, or the “Salem Witch Trials”. In the case of “Sri Lanka” a strange flu-like symptoms, with intestinal problems, coughing, rashes, and some headaches. Thousands were sent to the hospital, which causes widespread panic. It starts to spread to other parts of the population. Even though there was no medical cause to this illness, people still have symptoms of the “flu”. Studies found that the symptoms are just caused by very strong mass hysteria, which causes the victim to experience these symptoms. The media were the caused because of them spreading the

Fear and ignorance was also widespread in the 1980’s during the HIV/AIDS epidemic even after its modes of transmission were correctly identified. AIDS victims suffered for social as well as medical reasons. Look for stories of mass hysteria and you’ll find example after example. At the time of this writing fear has spread throughout the world of the Ebola virus currently ravaging the West Coast of Africa. Even though the method of transmission and incubation periods are explained to the general public, many mistrust the

The recently published article, “Ebola’s Legacy: After the passing,” discusses the decline in new cases of Ebola across West Africa as well as the long term effects of the viral disease on recovering African countries. The article begins with the introduction of quite controversial preventive efforts made by the governments of countries worst hit by the disease, in particular Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia, to deter the spread of Ebola. Many of these preventative actions, such as conducted house-to-house searches in Sierra Leone and restricted public gather in Liberia, were often seen as limitations on civil liberties by many in the affected communities (The Economist).

Ebola is a problem in our society today. It is a disease brought by unclean individuals.

Events that took place during this disaster were harmful to many people. Ebola included many details common to other viruses and caused damage to lives that effected the region, but the area has recovered.

How do you give a voice to those who are voiceless? Without journalism, many people would be blind, from luxury, pain, and love. It is journalism that unites the world. Over the past decade, technology has revolutionized what was once all on paper, changing the way journalism is published, and consumed. While social media’s presence in the industry grows every year, it is Adrienne Arsenault and her magnanimous coverage of the Ebola Outbreak, that keeps broadcast journalism alive and that impacted my desire to study it.

Imagine being isolated from your friends and family, suffering from an illness that feels as though something is burning through your body, while watching people around you dying of the same illness and wondering when it will be your turn to proverbially “kick the bucket”. For many survivors of the Ebola disease, this situation would be far too familiar. In March 2014, the Ebola virus outbreak began in West Africa, mainly in Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea. According to a recent figure from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), there have been a total of 28616 Ebola cases and 11310 deaths from Ebola in these three countries (2014). There were many unpalatable symptoms of the disease, such as “fever, headache, joint and muscle pain, widespread bleeding, diarrhea and other physical symptoms leading to high mortality” (Van Bortel). If one is lucky enough to survive this virus, however, there are just as many negative results of the virus as there were symptoms. Many West African survivors have to deal with their new negative image, negative lasting health effects, or a decrease in financial stability due to their inability to work or find work after they recover. Now that the West African Ebola epidemic is over, (Liberia) there remains the task of assimilating the survivors back into their societies. Moreover, the best solution to counteract the effects of the Ebola virus on survivors is to expand upon the Ebola-survivor-support organizations already in place.

Ebola infection ailment otherwise called Ebola hemorrhagic fever (EHF) or just Ebola, is a viral hemorrhagic fever of people and different primates brought on by ebolaviruses. Signs and Symptoms ordinarily begin between two days and three weeks in the wake of getting the infection with a fever,sore throat, strong agony, and cerebral pains.