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
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.
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.
Ebola is a virus that is transmitted to other individuals through direct contact with blood and body fluids of those infected (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 2015). In the most recent outbreak in 2014, the video Ebola Outbreak (2014) illustrated that the virus quickly became a worldwide epidemic. As the virus became so widespread throughout Africa, Ebola-infected so many people in such a short time frame. While the organization, Doctors without Borders was intimately involved early on, they quickly learned that the manpower they had to offer was not nearly enough. The group identified that they had no way of performing contact tracing, which is a way of following patients that were contaminated and quickly led to additional cases of infection in astronomical numbers. According to the follow-up video, Outbreak (2014) the organization Doctors without Borders communicated to the World Health Organization (WHO) made a valiant
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 CDC smallpox attack scenario at first might seem a bit farfetched. However, I feel believe that although the scenario might be somewhat exaggerated is not has farfetched as it might appear for several reasons. Smallpox has been considered eradicated since the 1970s; chances are the Center for Disease Control (CDC) has little to no vaccine on hand to deal with large scale breakout. Some government agencies tend to be reactive instead of proactive, especially when it comes to dealing with an issue that has small chance of happening.
Discovered in 1976 near the Ebola River, Ebola’s first two outbreaks in Sudan and Zaire killed the majority, over half, of the people infected with the disease. Although the natural host reservoir of Ebola has yet to be found, the virus is believed to be animal-borne. A person gets Ebola from a wild animal and then is spread throughout the human population through person-to-person transmission. Healthcare workers providing aide for Ebola victims know that they have a high possibility of contracting the disease because they are exposed to infected blood and body fluids. It could take from two to twenty-one days for the Ebola Virus to show symptoms in humans, and
What was usually a disease contained in regions of sub-Saharan Africa became a global worry. Although the outbreak started in Guinea, it quickly spread to two neighboring countries. From these three countries, cases were then transmitted to the United States, Spain, and the United Kingdom. No vaccine was available to stop the spread of Ebola. This deadly disease went from being a problem in only a small region of the world to being seen in three noncontiguous countries, which could have sowed the seeds of a pandemic had the cases not been contained. As a global community, we gain from our interactions with all citizens, but we must also be aware that we can also suffer from diseases that we think of as only affecting the “others.” If we do not help those “others,” we may become part of
A widower who has suffered the loss of his beautiful, beloved, and entirely idealized wife, Ligeia, narrates Edgar Allen Poe’s short story of the same name. Soon after Ligeia’s death, the narrator enters into an unfulfilling marriage with the Lady Rowena. The narrative concludes with Rowena 's death and what vaguely appears to be the resurrection of Ligeia. Poe’s short story may typically be read as a “ghost story”, in which the dead Ligeia’s will to live overcomes death with its sheer power; however, the narrator, throughout the story, demonstrates that he is almost entirely unable to tell reality from fantasy, and functions primarily in the “schizoid-position” (Schueller 601)—as evidenced by his use of many a psychological defense mechanism—hallucinates that Ligeia kills Rowena then returns from the dead. In this interpretation, the narrator’s own will for Ligeia’s life is expressed through his fantasy, which is enhanced by his heavy use of opium. Using this interpretation, it can not be the will of Ligeia that brings her back to life, but rather the narrator’s own extreme mental illness. Although the story "Ligeia" appears at first glance to be about the power of the eponymous character’s will to live, the story’s primary focus actually lies in the narrator, and through his psychological breakdown the true heart of the story is born.
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At the time Ebola struck, the World Health Organizations mission was to coordinate authority on international health work. During Ebola, WHO directed organizations to furnish aid upon the request of the government. Previous to the Ebola epidemic, the WHO’s budget was cut by a half a billion dollars. The budget cut lead to three hundred jobs being terminated, mainly effecting the emergency response staff. Friedman and Gostin propose making WHO the apex of change emphasizing the importance of a government funded organization motivating the stronger system. The authors discuss WHO’s treaty-making capability expressing their concern for its lack in exercise. Gostin and Friedman want WHO to set priorities, mobilize action, and promote compliance with protocols set forth by the UN and Global Health System. The authors gain support from their readers when they compare WHOs capabilities to the actions of other
The origin of the outbreak was in a country called Guinea. Guinea is located in a continent called Africa in the Northern Hemisphere. The virus then spread to one of the countries that boarder Guinea, Sierra Lionne. After Ebola had spread to Sierra Lionne it then went further south and went to Liberia. In 2014 Sierra Lionne and Liberia became the main concentrated areas of Ebola, it also went to Nigeria and The Democratic Republic Congo. After it hit these three countries it then dispersed to 3 more continents. Ebola was Concentric in Western Africa. Ebola dispersed into different continents where the disease clustered into little groups around the world. As of September 22 2014, the outbreak had reached five African countries including Guinea,
The article “Ebola Ravages Economies in West Africa” from The New York Times explores the impact of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) on West Africa, namely Sierra Leone’s, economy. Interestingly author of the article Jeffrey Gettleman, opens his commentary in a fashion similar to that of a romance novel. He sets the stage on a sultry night at a beachside bar with three women chatting as the waves crash in the background. As it turns out these three women, Susan, Zenab, and Tina, are all prostitutes and the topic of their conversation is the scarcity of Johns and Sierra Leone’s new motto: ABC- avoid body contact which is hard to do in their line of work since “it’s hard to have sex if you don’t touch.”
This picture highlights the effect, in America, of the small Ebola outbreak that occurred in 2014-2015. All ages were well aware of Ebola because it became nationally discussed. It had grown into a fear to obtain Ebola and die. We as Americans have developed an extremely oblivious conscious to what the deathly issues are.
Dangerous diseases constantly appear in the news. Currently, Zika virus is causing a demand for action to protect the general public. Due to the public outcry, President Obama has decided to ask Congress for money to fight against Zika virus. To analyze this within the context of political science, two things must be understood. First, understanding the broader sense of why the president needs to ask Congress for funding. Second, is to understand what happened when the president asked Congress for money to fight other diseases, like Ebola.
These past years I spent my time tracking the virus of Ebola as well as its various strains all over the world. At first I didn’t know of the disease, only of the mysterious deaths. I had heard a rumor of a man by the name of Monet who had become mysteriously sick with a disease that none have seen. This information led me to Nairobi, Kenya where the man was supposed to be. When I arrived at Nairobi Hospital I didn’t encounter the man of my search. I questioned a nurse, who asked not to be named, and she stated “A very sick man named Monet came to the hospital looking very zombie like and died but not before exploding over the waiting room and the doctors and nurses who were operating on him. Also Dr. Musoke was infected and is now unconscious.” I then started to search for Dr. Silverstein who had cared for Dr. Musoke. When I found Dr. Silverstein I told him what I why I was there. Though he was reluctant to reveal information, I convinced him to tell me that Dr. Musoke was positive for a virus known as Marburg. Apparently He had never heard of Marburg so I went to investigate. My sources found out that Marburg is an African virus but was first discovered in Marburg, Germany. In 1967 a factory that was working with African green monkeys from Uganda. The virus spread throughout the monkeys causing monkeys to crash and bleed out, and soon after the virus jumped species and infect first a man called Klaus F. The virus spread killing seven of the thirty one people who were