Ebola is very dangerous because people can go up to 21 days without realizing that they have been infected which makes this very hard to control. The Ebola epidemic in West Africa has been shown to be very deadly and if this illness begins to infect other parts of the world, it could produce a pandemic in a very short amount of time. To go along with this notion, the USA has transported infected Americans from West Africa back home to treat them for an Ebola infection. This is dangerous in that it could potentially aid the rapid spread of this illness. It is crucial that these people be quarantined and that they must be transported from one location to another as little as possible.
The Center for Disease Control has been in the process of producing a vaccination for Ebola however this is still in an early stage of development. People in the United States should not have the infinite feeling of safety from this virus. Even with the first world medical treatment that the United States has, this does not mean that you are guaranteed to survive once you have been infected. Overall the Ebola virus is a current issue in the news and is spreading throughout the world. The virus is still in the early stages in the United States however it is unknown how severe the virus will infect people on US soil. It is a race to try and get a vaccine created and distributed before the virus spreads and begins killing more people at a virtually unpredictable rate.
Picture Credit:
-http://www.nairaland.com/1848781/scary-pictures-ebola-virus-victims
-http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs103/en/
-http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2014/07/28/ebola-virus-deadly-africa-outbreak/13260541/
Sources:
-https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/science-ticker/first-ebola-patient-diagnosed-us-dies
-http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/07/31/world/africa/ebola-virus-outbreak-qa.html?_r=0
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