Ebola Spreading Uncontrollably

Ebola Spreading Uncontrollably

 

If anyone really believes the Ebola virus that is spreading rapidly throughout areas of Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and now in parts of Nigeria will be confined to those western and central African states, they must also believe such epidemics can be readily controlled and eradicated today thanks to modern, medical technological advances.

That’s called wishful thinking.

By their insidious nature, viruses tend to change, mutate into different forms and sometimes with varying symptoms, a fact evident with Ebola which consequently make their outbreaks much more difficult to diagnose and treat. 

As a consequence, despite international interventions in Africa by countries equipped with all the latest medical technology, Ebola’s progress has yet to be prevented from spreading.

To suggest the Ebola virus could very well and not in the very distant future, reach and infect perhaps millions in America may be unnecessarily alarmist but such a suggestion could also reflect a reasonable doubt that Ebola researchers and physicians completely grasp its dangers or, for that matter, whether information as to its proliferation would even be publicized to suppress panic.

According to the United Nations’ World Health Organization (WHO), the Ebola death toll has already exceeded 1,900 as opposed to 1,552 dead less than a week ago and more people have now died than in all previous outbreaks of the virus combined, according to WHO’s director general Margaret Chan. . . (Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=38871.)