The Epidemic Of Ebola Epidemic

In addition to the 2.45 physicians per 1,000 members of the population, members of the Commissioned Corps of the U.S. Public Health Service were, as well, tasked to provide direct patient care to EVD patients. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) not only allowed nationwide deployment of EVD testing capacity in the U.S., but even established an attractive regulatory goalpost for companies developing assays for use in West Africa. Simple to use, automated, and near-patient systems tests were accessible and available for deployment to health centers and clinics around the country during the early days of the outbreak. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) coordinated with selected airports to run screenings of travelers from affected countries, such as Sierra Leone. An “Ebola readiness checklist” helped health providing facilities to cover their bases, in case a patient carrying the virus walks in. The checklist identified critical gaps that could potentially endanger the safety of the patient, provider, and those in the vicinity. By highly encouraging a rigid set of protocols, the CDC hoped to avoid these gaps. A highly publicized media campaign, distinct from the government, naturally encouraged citizens to be on the watch for possible symptoms in their

In late 2013, Ebola virus disease (EVD), a deadly and lethal disease, remerged in West Africa spreading to various countries in the region. In humans, the disease is spread through contact with infected bodily fluids leading to haemorrhagic fever (World Health Organization [WHO], 2015). Originating in 1976 in equatorial Africa, past outbreaks with a few hundred cases had been contained within rural, forested areas in Uganda and Congo (Piot, 2012). In 2014, a total of 20, 206 cases and 7,905 deaths were reported to have occurred in up to eight countries worldwide. Of all cases and deaths resulting from the disease, 99.8% occurred in three neighbouring West African countries - Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea (WHO, 2014). With a case fatality rate from about 50% to 90%, and the absence of preventative or curative therapies, the Ebola epidemic has led to overall global alarm and further elucidated existing global health disparities that perpetuated the epidemic with these West African countries.

The whole world is at edge knowing that Ebola is a very lethal virus and it is very tough to treat and cure an infected person. But it has been seen that in countries were level of development is higher and health care is easily reached this disease can be fought.

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.

Ebola virus disease (EVD) policies globally has become a confusing and ongoing investigation among world governments and leaderships. The first diagnosis in America confirmed and made public by the Centers if Disease Control (CDC), was in Texas on September 20, 2014. The patient had developed symptoms around the fourth day after coming into the United States (CDC 2014). The patient had stated he did not pose any symptoms when he left West Africa. Upon falling ill, he went to a Texas hospital, and based upon the signs and symptoms he was presenting, the hospital performed a laboratory test. The test confirmed he was in fact positive for the virus, but to found in critical condition. Texas Presbyterian Hospital isolated the patient and unfortunately, the patient died from complications of the virus on October 8, 2014. As stated by DR. Tom Frieda (2014), Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, “We will contact anyone we think has any likelihood of having had contact with the patient when he was infectious, starting with relatives he had been staying with” (para 2). Health officials stated that once contacts were identified, they would be monitored for 21 days, which is the incubation period for the virus, for any signs and symptoms of the infection. At that point, the person would be put into quarantine themselves (CDC 2014). The public remained uneasy and questioned what was going to be done to stop the virus

SECOND POINT: Although an outbreak in America is highly unlikely, the fact that Ebola has been diagnosed on American soil brings fear to all. Because of its infectiousness and long incubation period, and the banality of early symptoms, it can be difficult to track and contain. We also do not have a cure for this disease, sure we have experimental drugs, but nothing official. The spread has been much quicker in this outbreak than others, affecting both urban and rural areas. Usual protective measures to prevent the spread appear to be less effective in this epidemic. What ebola does to the human body defies reason and is something like out of a horror movie, not a text book. Americans feel hopeless and vulnerable because Ebola is here. The victim who flew from Liberia to Dallas, Texas on September 30th of this year did expose others and there is a risk of it spreading. The Ebola virus is the most terrifying and least-understood virus known to man. We are witnessing the onset of a deadly mutation anticipated and feared for almost four decades. Americans have watched fully informed and trained health care workers contract Ebola.

There are many risks and ramifications of not managing diseases when traveling from different countries. The EBOLA outbreak started in parts of Africa and has started to show up in other countries due to the spread of the virus from travelers. WHO and U.S. Army personnel have since been sent over to Africa to contain and treat EBOLA (Getz, Gonzalez, Salter, Bangura, Carlson, Coomber, & Wauquier, 2015)). Now, agencies are tracking EBOLA and have learned different protocols for containment. Since, WHO and other agencies have been working on isolating the virus there has been less cases being reported of the spread of the virus. Influenza was also fatal and if it had not been control we would have lost more people. The first outbreak of Influenza

“It is rare for someone to die in the United States from Ebola because medical and monetary resources are extensive-much more so than in West Africa” (Fantz). The way Ebola even traveled to the US was from Americans who felt that West Africa and other countries needed help fighting Ebola. They took time out of their own lives to go and save others’ lives while also risking their own at the same time. Since West Africa does not have the resources we

Not only because they will lose on the money coming from those countries but because they will spend more money in trying to figure out who has Ebola and who doesn’t. For example, it going to be impressive seeing those countries that want to prevent the infected countries spent so much money trying to find the people who do have Ebola. For example, what if an American Citizen was infected would he not be allow returning to his home country because he is infected with Ebola? It is more than obvious that taking the privilege away of the people who come from Ebola infect countries will cause chaos in the world. It might even affect the amnesty some countries have with each other due to this

But only one small company has been experimenting and producing an experimental vaccine for Ebola. That small amount being produced does not put a dent in the amount of vaccine needed to administer to the patients in Africa. The United States does not feel that Ebola is a threat to the country but it will eventually make its way to the United States and by that time the government’s lack of concern will be regretted. Part of the reason why the Ebola outbreak isn’t being given much attention is because large companies don’t get any financial benefit from producing the drug. Ebola, for right now, is only contained to Africa so there is no worry. But if one person, who goes to Africa, gets exposed to Ebola and comes back to America, it could start the downward spiral. The person wouldn’t be able to know they are sick until at least 5 days after so the affected person, naïve to having Ebola, can bring it to America and spread it. That person could have spread the disease to 20 other people before they realized what they had. For right now Ebola is not serious, but it will

With no cure or vaccination available for the Ebola Disease Virus (EDV) it seems nearly impossible to control. It spreads very much like the common flu except that it is only passed by direct contact so there are no airborne particles yet. Furthermore, the places most at risk are hospitals, funerals, and unreported homes that contain Ebola patients, dead or alive. These places are where the Ebola virus is most easily spread from infected to non-infected. Moreover, what makes containment so difficult is that for the first three to six days people infected with Ebola show no symptoms. As a result, infected people carry the disease to new areas, and once they start showing symptoms they become a risk. Once an area has found a case of Ebola it is then isolated and all borders are closed, but people will still sneak across by land, causing further spread of the disease. However, with the help of analyst they have been able to predict the spread of Ebola over land to a degree. This is especially useful because the only way to stop Ebola at the moment, is to completely stop the spread of it over land and to have prevention packs ready. Through the use of Ebola kits, Study of regional spreading, and with

Our President and his team of infectious disease experts tried and calmed down Americans’ terror about the Ebola virus going airborne even there are signs showing that it’s possible. In 1989, episode at Reston, Virginia, monkey research area with a scientist who helped fight the Reston outbreak. The researchers went to Africa so they can deal with a later Ebola outbreak in humans. The virus could mutate or go airborne. They aren’t 100 %

The Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) has spread across several West African countries, adding a significant medical and financial burden to their healthcare systems and economies. The virus has the potential to spread and efforts to halt its progression are challenged by already struggling economies and healthcare systems. The EVD epidemic started in resource-constrained settings and caused thousands of fatalities. However, given population mobility, international travel and an increasingly globalized economy, the recent EVD epidemic has the potential to reoccur and evolve into a global pandemic [1]. Struggling health systems in West African countries pose a significant challenge to contain future EVD epidemics and to reduce its causes and effects.

The Ebola virus (EBOV) is very pathogenic, and it belongs to the genus Ebolavirus within the family of Filoviridae. The virus can cause several syndromes between human and non-human primates. This syndrome includes a hemorrhagic fever. In fact, there is a recent epidemic of EBOV in West Africa that has increased the morbidity and mortality rate of the infection to a higher percentage, but there are surges in developing their health care system to combat the infection and to control the future incidences. West Africa nations that are affected by the Ebola virus has trained healthcare workers about safety methods in handling outbreaks and has given early prophylactic treatment to reduce the dose of the virulent. However, there are two types

Previously limited to East and Central Africa, the 2014 West Africa Ebola outbreak was the first time such a disease impacted the region. Global health agencies were predicting 10,000 cases a week by the end of 2014 and, as of October 29, 2014, there were 13,567 confirmed, probably, and suspected cases of Ebola Virus Disease in eight countries - Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Sierra Leone, Spain, Nigeria, Senegal, and the United States with 4,951 deaths. The failings of the public health systems across Western Africa are glaringly obvious, but this is not solely their fault. In