The Ebola virus is ravaging West Africa and has
finally reached the United States. While we
certainly have a better chance at containing it,
the case of an infected man who had just come to
the U.S. from Liberia who was sent home by an ER
nurse is disturbing, to say the least. It took
two days before he was quarantined.
Initially he was just given antibiotics and not
taken too seriously.
Google "Ebola" and you'll see how nasty this
virus is - and just how terribly handled it has
been in Africa - with bodies left to rot in the
streets and general chaos.
Our biggest obstacles to containment here in the
states are (1) a government that isn't screening
people coming into the U.S. from infected
nations let alone restricting flights, (2) uninsured or underinsured people
wary of seeing the doctor, and (3) unprepared
medical staff.