10-13-2014, 09:44 AM
Other countries have successfully stopped an ebola outbreaks. My family is actually from Uganda and there was an outbreak there in 2012. It was stopped within the same year and their hospitals and clinics are not remotely as good as ours. In fact often, in Uganda people will suffer with diseases like this at home as outpatients because the hospitals are small.
Anyway, I think it is worrisome that cases of ebola have spread in the states but I am confident that we can handle it. The media is just sensationalizing the recent outbreak for some reason and I would like to know why. Usually when the media gets people all riled up about something like this it is to distract from something else that is much worse. This current outbreak is not the first. In fact, ebola was first seen in humans in the late 70's and there have been several outbreaks that have been dealt with since and succesfully stopped.
It's just scary because it is like fast acting AIDS, but in a way this makes it less likely to spread.
Anyway, I think it is worrisome that cases of ebola have spread in the states but I am confident that we can handle it. The media is just sensationalizing the recent outbreak for some reason and I would like to know why. Usually when the media gets people all riled up about something like this it is to distract from something else that is much worse. This current outbreak is not the first. In fact, ebola was first seen in humans in the late 70's and there have been several outbreaks that have been dealt with since and succesfully stopped.
It's just scary because it is like fast acting AIDS, but in a way this makes it less likely to spread.