Be Afraid, Be Very, Very Afraid-Ebola Fever

   So, I am guessing the past 1-2 months you might of heard of a fatal disease kind of spreading in Western Africa. Well, that is a truthful statement but it also kind of a lie, because Ebola has been spreading in Western Africa for around 5-6 months now. It took 2 American Doctors and one American doctor to die before Western Media picked up on this fatal disease.
  The Definition of Ebola Fever...
"an infectious and generally fatal disease marked by fever and severe internal bleeding, spread through contact with infected body fluids by a filovirus (Ebola virus), whose normal host species is unknown."

That definition of Ebola just kind of scares me thinking about it. Usually to make up a vaccine for something, it helps to know the host or atleast how or where it comes from. Well for this it is 10x scary because they just do not know and it is spreading throughout Western Africa. I know, some people are saying there are tons of onfectious diseases in Africa, why should we care. Well, you should care all the time, however, this one is not curable and the possibility of it spreading and being a contagion is pretty good. So far there has been no travel restricitons, but we could very well see that soon because the disease is deadly and if it becomes a contagion, it will be a huge mess for the whole world. It is happening in rural areas of Africa, but, it could spread to Nigeria and that would be a problem.

With everything going on now in Nigeria, with kidnappings, the terrorist groups and large metropolitcan areas, the odds of spread to other countries outside of Africa is likely. The worst part about it is they have not even started testing yet for a vaccine. Right now, for treatment, they are in ICU with fluids and medicine. But, not everyone in Africa has that luxury, right now the 2 America doctors are in Atlanta heavily quartined and being watched 24/7. They said it could take til 2016 to have a solid vaccination if everything goes great, IF.

It is definitely a scary situation that could spread like wildfire, and without a vaccine or treatment, people are just dying. They may not even know that they have it. The movie contagion is a perfect example of what could happen. I am not saying it will happen, it is unlikely with technology, but this does pose an international threat. It is something that America is taking for granted. Everyone in the world in the science field, should be working on a vaccine. But, right now it just seems like we are praying for some "magic bullets". That isn't how everything works. If this disease makes it into NIgeria, it will quickly become an international crisis. Right now, Nigeria has no healthcare because doctors are on strike, it is like the perfect storm of contagions. More than 70% of the populations of Sierrea Leon, Guinea and Liberia (Foreign Policy)

So educate yourself and wake up
Thats TJ for ya...