In class we have been talking about Ebola. Ebola is a very contagious disease that is very deadly. There is a 10% of surviving. The Ebola virus has been around for years but this resent strain has been hard to contain and is spreading to other countries including the U.S.

                There are five strains of the virus: Sudan ebolavirus, Tai Forest ebolavirus, Reston ebolavirus, Bundibugyo ebolavirus, and the current strain Zaire ebolavirus. The current one causes: fever, rash, vomiting, diarrhea, and hemorrhaging. All of these symptoms together can kill. Hemorrhaging is a very dangerous on its own because it causes blood to escape blood vessels and it goes into the surrounding tissues. If hemorrhaging where to happen in the lungs one would choke on their own blood and send them into a state of shock.

                I learned that the main way to fight the disease is to prevent it from spreading. The way to do that is to quarantine everybody with the disease. We are not handling this well because the workers keep getting themselves exposed to the virus. If they keep exposing themselves to the virus and then going on to planes or other public transportation it will become very dangerous.

Info gathered from http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/177623/ebolavirus

               

 

                I feel that Ebola will be the Black Death all over again. Many people will die and it will be worldwide. If countries don’t help each other it will be too late and so many people will be dying or already dead. It will eventually die out like the Black Death, but we will go from 7 billion to 700 million. If this happens the world will need to change because many will have died, from doctors, to builders, to shop owners, to world leaders. None will be safe.

                If we come together as a world I believe we can stop this disease. I don’t think we can cure it but stop it. The disease will return in the future like it has before and there will be plenty of strains that come up over the years. It will have a huge impact on the whole world because it will stop travel and cost a lot of money impacting trade and tourism. Trade and tourism have a huge roll with globalization because trade brings in other cultures and sends out some of your own. Tourism allows people to experience the other culture first hand. This disease will have a huge impact on the world because it will affect the world.