Most countries in Africa are farther away from Ebola than you are in North American and Europe! The only way you will get Ebola on a plane is if the person is violently vomiting next to you! Pleases get your facts straight!
Actually the person infected with Ebola doesn't have to throw up next to you to get you infected by a very high chance, Ebola can even be transmitted by sweat. This is one of the biggest problems down in the parts of Africa that have infected people, where it's really hot and the helping people sweat just as much as their patients. The movement of your body isn't as controlled as you may think, and just one wiping in the face with your hand while working with Ebola patients raises your chance of getting infected to over 90%. You probably wouldn't even notice this short, simple and natural movement.
Also, all of the experts are now watching over India: India is classified as a, in the case of an epedemic, uncontrolable country because of the many people living there on small space.
The flu doesn't have an 80% mortality rate. There is a vaccine for most influenza virus, there is not one for Ebola. Flu usually kills the weak, Ebola kills everybody.
i'm half and half. I think we should help people there- but bringing people back isn't the best idea. If you can't cure it quickly and efficiently- don't risk bringing it into your country- plus all that technology to defend ourselves against ebola isn't helping much- what was it, 3 people after a week now in America?
people want to help. But it's no good helping if you're just going to bring it back to your own country and make matters worse by the virus spreading- they can't cure themselves, but neither can you cure them if you catch it and it spreads to everybody else around you.
1. You can provide supportive care, which increases the chances of survival by ~50%
2. If people weren't there, working with the sick and studying the disease, a vaccine would never be found
It's a minute risk to yourself and others in your home country, at the benefit of savings thousands of lives
I am closer to the outbreak by being in England than I would be by being in South Africa. In developed nations, there is practically NO reason to worry about it spreading. There have been, what, 3 cases of ebola in all of North America? You are more likely to be simultaneously struck by lightning and eaten by a shark than to contract ebola, let alone die from it
I think your way of thinking is very selfish. We are all one kind, regardless of where we live. I think we have a duty to help eachother, especially in a situation like this where they don't have the resources to save themself. We can't let thousands of people die just because we don't want to share.
If the countries who can afford to contain it don't get involved, it'll spread. If a highly fatal, highly contagious breakout occurs anywhere on the planet, you nip it in the bud so it doesn't wipe you out in two years' time.
Also we have to send troops because terrorits can infect themselves and then have a ten day period to travel around the world infecting as many people as possible who will then spread the disease
Norwegiangirl, the two women from Dallas that contracted Ebola wore suits. There was a hospital in Liberia (I think) that was closed when the doctors and administrators became ill and/or died from Ebola. The smallest mistake can be your last. http://www.npr.org/2014/08/12/339878604/ebola-closes-the-doors-of-one-of-liberias-oldest-hospitals.
You better hope your country stops allowing travel from infected nations.
all that stuff we have to contain it isn't doing brilliantly so far. It's been in America for what a week? And it's already spreading- possibly much more since one nurse who had it went on a plane right before she was diagnosed-even though she knew she had a fever and had been working around people with the disease. I think we should help people, but if we can't cure it in the richer countries, bringing people back isn't helping much either :/
2. If people weren't there, working with the sick and studying the disease, a vaccine would never be found
It's a minute risk to yourself and others in your home country, at the benefit of savings thousands of lives
You better hope your country stops allowing travel from infected nations.