The article from Vox.com titled "Americans should panic about Ebola, but not because it threatens the United States" focuses on the idea of what is happening now with the virus to make it a more formidable threat later. There is speculation that mutations in the virus are leading to Ebola becoming endemic in West Africa so that it ..."becomes a constant threat rather than an episodic one.". The article goes on to discuss the potential ramifications of endemic Ebola for global travel, health care, business, and the human condition in general. Ebola may not be a direct threat to kill you in the U.S., but in terms of worldwide human suffering, it is worthy of great concern.
Read the entire article here: http://www.vox.com/2014/10/14/6971585/ebola-panic-africa-america
I had a coworker that just came back from Africa on a 2 week stay visiting her family that she hasn't seen for 10 yrs. Her mother was so happy. I had another friend that went to Africa for a month to visit her son that was sent back on bad behavior, they were in Morocco. They both told me that before they could enter back into the states they were quarantined and checked. I'm not really worried about Ebola cause we live in the U.S. but I don't think that people should be allowed to travel to Africa right now until they find a vaccine. I was reading a article that said Marijuana smokers have a less likely chance of catching it because of some of the ingredients inside that made the virus hard to duplicate itself and hide itself in the body, due to the fungus that grows inside a body of a weed smoker. Don't know how much truth it is to that buti thought it was very interesting.
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