EBOLA IS CURABLE AND I DIDN'T KNOW THIS.
A German scientist contracted the disease while working with WHO. He was treated and released from the hospital on Friday. Another patient who contracted Ebola in West Africa is being treated in Frankfurt. The unidentified Ugandan man who worked for an Italian aid gorup was brought there on Friday from Siierra Leone.
"As the US and the world raatchet up their humanitarian response to an outbreak President Obama has called "a threat to global security," health authorities remind AMericans that other disease that threatened to spread even more easily have been kept in check in the recent past. Massive investments in public health funding, medical research, and containment strategies have played a major role in keeping diseases including SARS, avian flue, H1N1, and Ebola from gaining serious footholds in human populations, especially in the West."
Four US health care workers diagnosed with Ebola all survived after receiving treatment in the US as well.
If we can curable, why is it such a problem. Where is the action. I understand the fact that there are a lot of patients, but if we can cure it, the death number should be reduced significantly. Actions should be taken while a prevention effort is devised. The fact that it seems like a giant game of Plague Inc. is being played with the human race right now is sickening. We have kept other disease in check, as stated above, but this is a little frustrating. You'd think we would have gotten better at this by now, and maybe taken some initiative to prevent these things from happening in lesser developed countries, instead of relying on the West to be a stronghold and pray that nothing can get past the fortress, because eventually, something will.
