The Ebola Crisis Just Went From Bad to Worse
by Dave Hodges
TheCommonSenseShow.com
Aug. 13, 2014
Under the category of “I told you so”, a political contact, Jatto Abdulqudir, of who I dubbed Patient Zero, Patrick Sawyer, has died. I had previously expressed the fear that Sawyer’s boarding of two airplanes with multiple connecting flights raised the likelihood that hundreds of thousands would be exposed on the same day to the Ebola virus (www.twtitter.com/hniman).
This one fact represents an emerging picture which serves to demonstrate that the Ebola containment efforts are failing miserably and we are in the beginning of an emerging pandemic. Further, this article will make it clear that health officials ranging from the World Health Organization to the CDC are negligent in their duty to protect the public in the midst of this Ebola outbreak.
America’s Future Amidst An Ebola Outbreak
Since the worst Ebola outbreak in history first emerged in March in West Africa, 1,013 have died. Among the dead are 81 of 170 heath care workers who have been infected. These statistics are the latest figures according to statistics just released by the World Health Organization. Approximately 8% of Ebola’s victims, in West Africa, are medical personnel who were tasked with the treatment of the virus. The ratio of medical personnel to the general population who died from Ebola is astronomical and a cause for extreme alarm.
Some will say that the seven West Africa nations are made up of third world countries and subsequently, their quarantine and containment procedures are primitive and this accounts for the high Ebola transmission rate to medical personnel. However, among the infected health care workers are two Americans doctors whose knowledge is not primitive and they should have been well trained on proper quarantine and containment procedures. The high infection ratio of dead patients to dead medical personnel is alarming beyond words and nobody is talking about this in the mainstream media.
The high rates of medical personnel contracting Ebola has sent a shockwave of panic through West Africa as several of Sierra Leone’s frightened nurses have walked off the job and the medical units fighting Ebola have been profoundly crippled.
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