The Ebola virus
Ebola is spreading
very fast, putting the lives of health workers also in danger. The outbreak in
West Africa is rapidly claiming lives to date, prompting the World Health
Organization to declare an international health emergency as over more than
2,100 people have died of the virus in Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone and
Nigeria this year.
The shocking
death rate a few months after the outbreak and appeals from aid organizations,
have prompted the American government to decide to assign 3,000 US military
personnel to West Africa's Ebola-affected regions to supply medical equipment,
support health workers and treat victims of the epidemic.
Ebola is a
highly dangerous disease. Highly qualified doctors and health workers are at
risk if they treat infectious people without proper precautions. Thus; the need
for Obama’s administration to send military personnel to help is necessary.
Often
desperate and frustrated people end up doing crazy things. In the village of
Womme, outside the town of Nzerekore, in the southeast of Guinea, eight
delegation members, including two journalists on a mission to educate the
people about Ebola and show them how to prevent it, in a region where many lacks
the education on Ebola encountered their untimely death.
Many
Africans hold the idea that Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) was
purposely inflicted on Africa by Europeans to wipe out Africans. The villagers
thought the same on the Ebola issue and furiously attacked the delegation
killing them.
The origin
of Aids documentary film
“In the 1950s, American and Belgian missionaries in the Belgian colonies of the Congo
widely distributed polio vaccine to a million children in a bid to wipe out the
crippling disease; however, evidence now suggests that Dr. Koprowski's oral vaccine may have been tainted and that the first instances of the disease may
be linked to those inoculations.
Using
interviews, newsreel footage, and documented research experiments, The
Origin of AIDS examines how a combination of benevolence, careless lab
procedures and the need of a desperate few to cover their tracks could have
led to one of the most serious pandemics of the 20th century.”
Watch the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZs1V8mpcoY.
Africans have lived with this theory for years.
“It's very
sad and hard to believe, but they were killed in cold blood by the villagers,”
government spokesman Albert Damantang Camara said, according to Agence
France-Presse. The delegation under the wrath of the villagers with
stones and clubs fled into the bush after the attack, according to the Guinean
radio, but they were pursued and killed.
It’s
unfortunate that in the midst of such an epidemic, innocent workers could meet
such a horrible death. Many health workers are now known to have fled their
posts, afraid to work, especially at places where the disease has killed
doctors, nurses, and hygienists. The killing of the delegation is now one of
the setbacks to prevent health care workers from going to affected areas in Africa.
The impact
of Ebola, picture: Courtesy of the World Health Organization.