EBOLA – An Emergency In The World

Ebola, a disease so negligible yet comes out with a bang within a span of one year. What seem to be the possibilities also seem to incomprehensible. What could have possibly caused the death of a 6 year old and consequently the death of so many people. Now if I had to be a hard-core superstitious person, I might as well call it some kind of black magic gone wrong. A realist might call it a typical situation of poverty stricken country going through a third world problem like every other. Such as that of “Chicken flu” or rather “Bird flu” in India. Other skeptics also might boldly state that these are certain tactics to gain political attention or attention of supranational organisations. Yet there may be a few who say that when there are reasons unknown the possibility of the outbreak could be numerous.

According to my understanding Ebola is a communicable disease spread from people handling or butchering animals and at the same time this “deathly” disease germinated in the forests of West Africa. Does this mean that there are animals being hunted down in the forests of West Africa? Because if so then that is also a matter of grave concern as PETA haven’t sure been looking into better treatment of animals on a larger whole then.

On the contrary, if we see how Indian doctors have been shirking off their responsibilities on a very professional note just because of the fear of the epidemic, it would be an utter shame. If the whole world needs to be taking precautions, then including the Indian subcontinent at the very moment, then on a personal note people dying definitely need help.

There are countries like the United States of America, who think that “vaccines” are the only way of keeping the disease or rather epidemic out of the state perimeters, but a security guard at the J.F.K Airport won’t be able to figure out who might be carrying that disease just by looking at the people walking by.

This epidemic will also have a solution to it once countries get together to find the route cause to it. Like small pox in the 1800’s this might also be one of those instances where the another country might have infected one area in a forest in West Africa with air borne means. That might seem to be a very bold statement to be made, but then again we are living in such a century where technological advancements are no less at “creating” a disease and at the same time finding methods to eradicate them as well.

Rhea Hussain,