Wednesday, November 05, 2014

Ebola Here to Stay?

I have kept an open mind, attentive to details experts have given, and am far away from any possible contact with it allowing me to view the threat with some objectivity.

Half of those that acquire it die.  That is the scary part.  A person must come in contact with an afflicted person's body fluids, such as blood, sweat, saliva, feces, in order to be infected with Ebola.  It is not an air-born spread disease.  It can be killed relatively easy by using a disinfectant, such as chorine bleach.  It has a incubation period of from a few days up to twenty-one days.  This variable incubation period makes it difficult to control, since a person can travel a long ways away from the initial contact point to a city anywhere in the world, without knowing he/she has contracted it.  With enough available resources a country can treat and quarantine individuals infected with the virus.  The protocol for stopping the disease must be religiously applied if the disease is to be annihilated. 

I have heard a lot of panicky talk, about closing down air travel to afflicted areas and other extreme measures to stop the spread of the disease.  Knowledge, training, and applying proven techniques will stop the spread of this disease, not hysteria. 

1 Comments:

At November 24, 2015 2:51 AM, Anonymous http://www.best-essays.co.uk/ said...

Yes, you are absolutely right! That is an hysteria. But is that justified that people care so much about that disease that even is not an air-born spread disease? Sometimes I think that some people just want to divert our attention from more crucial things.

 

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