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By Joanna DelBuono
Brooklyn Daily
It is amazing how this Ebola outbreak has been bungled by the entire world.
For 38 years the Center for Disease Control and the World Health Organization have dropped the ball from Day 1.
Why is it that there is no effective vaccine on the shelf? Why has it taken this many lives to be lost. According to a Wikipedia report, more than 5,000 people have died since October! And that is only this latest outbreak.
What is the problem? These researchers have had 38 years to come up with a vaccine and they are only working on it now?
The disease, which up until now has been contained in West African nations has spread to Spain, and the United States. Albeit the cases are directly related to the affected countries, but still, how can the CDC and WHO guarantee that it won’t start spreading here as a natural progression of the disease?
New York and New Jersey have quarantined anyone coming from these areas, but isn’t that a tad too late? While these persons are sitting on a plane, they could be contaminating others sitting right next to them. There are 200 to 300 other people possible exposed, and yet they get off the plane and go about their life.
Panic is another result of the bungling and since the disease hit our shores last month, it has reared its ugly head, the latest right here in New York.
The Daily News reported that two boys from Senegal were mobbed by bullies in the playground of their school IS 318. The boys were beaten with the bullies chanting, “You’re Ebola.”
The dad said his sons have been targeted since they returned to America about a month ago from Senegal.
“They go to gym and they say, ‘You don’t touch the ball, you have Ebola, if you touch it we will all get Ebola.’ ”
An Associated Press article blamed the fact that there are no proper drugs or vaccines “in large part because the disease is so rare that it’s been hard to attract research funding. And the West African nations hardest hit by the outbreak are unlikely to be able to afford new Ebola vaccines and drugs.”
Not for Nuthin, if the United States and other countries can bleed money into military funding for oil-rich countries in the Middle East, and U.S. drug companies can drown us in cures for baldness, it seems to me that the must be money for research for a disease that has taken the lives of thousands.
Or is it because the lives of those in Third-World countries that don’t have any oil to export are not important? Makes you wonder.
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