The worst is panning
out. What is shocking is that they found a man with Ebola in US, the people
whom 
he came in contact have been isolated. It was later found that the doctors
have erred in sending him back in the first place. Now if this could happen in
US just imagine what it would be like in poorer societies, and there is a very likelihood
that people with Ebola could be moving in other parts of the world too. I am
quite worried; it need be pointed out that there are many Indians working in West
Africa, add to it the congested, unhygienic condition of public hospitals where
even the health workers don’t take sufficient protection. Ebola threat needs to
be taken very seriously. I am sure authorities do understand the seriousness of
the situation.
he came in contact have been isolated. It was later found that the doctors
have erred in sending him back in the first place. Now if this could happen in
US just imagine what it would be like in poorer societies, and there is a very likelihood
that people with Ebola could be moving in other parts of the world too. I am
quite worried; it need be pointed out that there are many Indians working in West
Africa, add to it the congested, unhygienic condition of public hospitals where
even the health workers don’t take sufficient protection. Ebola threat needs to
be taken very seriously. I am sure authorities do understand the seriousness of
the situation.
I was reading that the
country of Liberia has less than 50 doctors! Then there is positive story of
nurse saving her relatives with rudimentary equipments. Nevertheless the virus
is spreading at an amazing rate, propping up at unlikely places. What is worse
the virus is mutating and changing its genetic makeup. This vicious virus has
many tricks up its sleeves and could easily open up apocalyptic scenes. I was
also reading somewhere that the possibilities of it being used by terrorist organization
(though it was a fringe comment by some loony but the threat is real, indeed in
last few years things are moving towards not-so-nice scenarios. Arab spring has
soured so badly because of primitive expression of religion, people’s hopes
have been quashed). This became a real possibility when the hospitals were
raided by goons and they ‘freed’ the Ebola patients. The societies where Ebola
epidemic is spreading don’t have strictest of laws and are quite impoverished, deadliest
of combination if there is. This has the potential to destabilize societies, countries
and even regions. We are facing a humanitarian catastrophe. This is not scare mongering
(I have better things not to do!!). Wake up people. Don’t forget what Louis Pasteur said
"It is the microbes who will have the last word".
