Thursday, October 16, 2014


The panic has now started in United States of the Ebola virus, since the first Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan in Dallas, Texas on September 19th. Reading this article "Real Ebola crisis's in Africa, not in United States" in The Daily Texan. I learned that the virus has first been found in central Africa back in the 1970s transmitted from a wild animal to a human. The author makes the argument that the U.S generally ignores the problems across sea that we cannot see our self "For all the talk about globalization, most Americans still think in very local ways". Our government doing little in response to Ebola because it has always been such a rare virus. In 2014 with the spread of the virus in West Africa becoming worse and the deadly virus now effecting the states we have begun to take action. U.S. customs officials has now started to check West African visitors for an evidence of the Ebola virus. The author believes that we should not ignore the crisis in West Africa that we should stop the spared there first where it came from but we cannot do it by our self "We cannot afford to ignore the Ebola crisis in West Africa, but we cannot solve the problem alone. The time has come for us to step forward and lead a large multinational effort to bring needed health assistance to the region". I defiantly agree with this statement to stop the spread of it we have to fully get rid of the virus where it first started and has the most Ebola suffers. Maybe if we did not ignore the fatal virus in the first place and gave a better helping hand we would not be experiencing cases in the U.S.