We all look at the TV screen and see all the bad things Ebola has done to Africa and it's people. However, Ebola isn't nearly as bad as some other diseases that are in our country as I type!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/ebola/11138584/Five-diseases-far-deadlier-than-Ebola-found-in-the-US.html
ReplyDeleteWhen it says "Mortality from pneumonic plague approaches 100 per cent when untreated, while some strains of bubonic plague can be as high as 70 per cent." How apparent are these plauges in our current society? It makes me wonder if this should be concerning.
It really depends where you are, in Madagascar, they have the plague left and right. In much of Europe and North America we see the plague as something that could have been dangerous centuries ago
DeleteIt really depends where you are, in Madagascar, they have the plague left and right. In much of Europe and North America we see the plague as something that could have been dangerous centuries ago
Delete"This strain of the virus, which has killed over 3,000 in west Africa, has a fatality rate of around 55 per cent." Ebola actually is not a very deadly disease at all, its just a bunch of hype. I mean colds were more deadly 100 years ago. Amoebic meningoencephalitis
ReplyDeleteis one disease I've heard of before this and it occurs in fresh water. The reason it is so deadly is because it is not very detectable and doesn't have strong symptoms.
Like Alex said, I am curious how much of a threat these diseases are. We were more worried about Ebola because it could become an epidemic, but how threatening are the above diseases?
ReplyDeleteA lot of it was mostly hype. Ebola did run rampant in some West African countries, but it was contained. This wasn't the first Ebola outbreak, so people were definitely trained on what to do.
DeleteSo this question is similar to what other people have already commented, but I'm going to ask this anyway. Why aren't we hearing more about these diseases in media rather than hearing about Ebola, I mean, these diseases are much more deadly and threatening to us, so it doesn't make sense to talk about a disease, just because it has something to do with the U.S.
ReplyDeleteI wonder why Ebola became so widely known and some of the other diseases I haven't even heard of. Like Dara, I wonder if those other diseases aren't a threat to our population, unlike Ebola, causing it to be more popular in the media than other diseases. However, I believe diseases like AIDS is equally as scary as Ebola, and that when the article says "It has infected 75 million people and killed 36 million of them" we must find a solution to this!
ReplyDeleteI think it's because AIDS can be prevented, but Ebola can be prevented, but it is really hard to prevent. You can prevent getting AIDS by practicing safe sex, but if you touch just a drop of sweat from someone who has Ebola, you will contract it. Safe sex and paychecks kids.
DeleteI think the reason that Ebola is considered so bad is because of how contagious it is. Less than a drop of someone's body fluids is enough to infect a person, because of this along with how deadly it is makes it a pretty effective killing machine. So it is quite a bad little virus, with a mortality rate of three out of ten people living and over 10,000 people dead in Africa Ebola actually is a bad disease. Along with the fact that our modern medicine is so advanced that we've been able to cure thousands of diseases and prevent them from spreading. I think one of the main reasons that people think of Ebola being so deadly is because of how many Africans had to watch their family members around them dying of the horrible disease, along with this the symptoms of the pathogen being terrible it is a pretty bad disease to contact.
ReplyDeleteI agree with what you said. I do think it is weird how reporting on Ebola dropped to none but there is the plague in Madagascar? Maybe it's because most Americans think of the movie Madagascar rather than the actual country.
DeleteI think it depends on how contagious the disease is, where its from, and if there is a cure for it, because even thought ebola has a 55% fatality rate it is very contagious.
ReplyDeleteWell due to Africa not being the richest place in the world, Ebola is hard to contain because it spreads from village to village which are far away from big cities, making careing for the sick pretty hard. Not only this but Ebola doesn't have a cure, so the African government cant disperse vaccines at all because they don't exist. This makes Ebola a pretty bad disease as I already stated, plus I'm pretty sure the actual fatality rate is 70.8 percent according to the WHO, or the world health organization. Another reason that it's even worse in Africa is because there really isn't that much that the nurses caring for the infected patients can do, they do have a very limited amount of supplies and money making the situation a pretty difficult one over there. Africa does struggle with other diseases too though such as AIDS, tuberculosis and cholera along with many other horrible diseases making the situation even worse.
DeleteAfrica struggles with aids.
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