Are We Being Too Careful With The Ebola Virus?

 The healthcare workers caring for Ebola patients were supposed to take their own temperatures and report anything if they were to start feeling sick. Recently, Amber Vinson, a healthcare worker that had been caring for Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan, was allowed to fly on a commercial airline with a mild fever. After Vinson was allowed to fly from Ohio to Dallas, CDC Director Dr. Tom Frieden said that she should not have flown on a commercial flight. Before Duncan was officially diagnosed with Ebola, he had come in contact with his family. When Duncan was officially diagnosed, his family then became confined to their homes under armed guard. To me, it does not make sense that Duncan's family was confined to their homes, but the nurses that gave Duncan his shots, IV's, and handled his bodily fluids are allowed to fly commercially. The AJC says that 125 friends, family, doctors, technicians, ambulance drivers and others may have been exposed to the virus before Duncan died on October 8.  

Works Cited:  Ebola Monitoring Inconsistent as Virus Spread." AJC.com: Atlanta News, Sports, Atlanta Weather, Business News. N.p., n.d. Web. 19 Oct. 2014.

http://www.ajc.com/ap/ap/top-news/ebola-monitoring-inconsistent-as-virus-spread/nhmfY/#cmComments

AIDS Among Orphans in Sub-Saharan Africa

AIDS has slammed Sub-Saharan Africa with sickness. It is said that more than 34 million orphans in this region have this disease. For kids that do not have families, street life is their only alternative. The streets make these poor kids more prone to trauma, distress, abuse and AIDS. Most of these children are born with AIDS because their mother had it. With the lack of a good healthcare system and a ravaging government, these children and other people do not receive the treatment that they need. With no cure being provided to these people, the number of people with this disease will only continue to grow. These kids have not only been robbed of their parents from this disease, but their childhood as well.



Works Cited:   AIDS Orphans in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Looming Threat to Future Generations." UN News Center. UN, n.d. Web. 19 Oct. 2014.
http://www.un.org/events/tenstories/06/story.asp?storyID=400