Thomas Duncan was a Liberian American who contracted the Ebola virus and died on October 8, 2014. this has caused initiative to take measures to screen airline passengers after their arrival to the U.S. Duncan was questioned for symptoms and found to be free of any, so they sent him home. He was admitted into a Dallas hospital in Texas after feeling symptoms and seeking help there. Would he have been hospitalized early on from his arrival to the country, he would have had a better fighting chance. President Obama has pushed for the screenings to be exercised in 5 of the major international airlines that travel to areas in Africa that have a high concentration of contamination of Ebola--Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/first-ebola-patient-in-us-dies-as-officials-announce-new-airport-screening-measures/2014/10/08/cfc95670-4f15-11e4-aa5e-7153e466a02d_story.html
Wednesday, October 8, 2014
Wednesday, October 1, 2014
Nigeria's Actions Contain Ebola
Ebola
has become a notorious virus that has become synonymous with the word death.
Any person that becomes infected with the virus dies within a short time
span. Nigeria, one of Africa's most populous countries, recently had an
outbreak of the virus. This is cause for
alarm given that countries like Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone have not been
able to placate the fatal illness. Nigeria has surprisingly accomplished such
feat by working with such organizations such as “the Health Ministry, the
C.D.C., the World Health Organization, Unicef, Doctors Without Borders and the
International Committee for the Red Cross.” (NYTimes)
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