This is the first time Ebola has found it's way outside of West Africa. This is the first time Ebola has spread like wildfire throughout West Africa. This strain of Ebola is a dangerous virus, but, not as dangerous as it could be.
Previous to the exposure of the USA sovereign borders, Ebola research has been conducted as a problem, but, never as a potential to an epidemic. There are vastly different approaches in the USA than the approaches in West Africa. West Africa, even with the WHO, has limited ability to address the reality of Ebola. Sanitary and isolation facilities have at times escaped West Africa as a means of minimizing Ebola virus.
West Africa has to be interested in sanitation and health for their citizens. This episode has proven Ebola can be conquered on a regular basis with people that are healthy in the first place. Emaciated, hungry and thirsty West Africans cannot be the standard for charities to raise money and provide relief. West Africans have to be consistently healthy.
The status quo of the past cannot stand. To that end gun violence cannot destabilize governments that have provided the best path for citizens. The United Nations Small Arms Treaties cannot be ignored and require global adherence to end the destabilization of nations of people.
There also needs to be library information in the multitude of languages in Africa. It can be an audible library and/or one with written information or both. There is much to do and to that reality there is an abundance of economic development available to these countries. The leadership has to move forward out of Third World status. This episode has proven the global community has an interest in the best outcomes of any Third World country. In that lies the future of the health care industry as well as any product development serving Africa's new focus for economic growth.
Any Third World country developing a health care infrastructure will find an expanding economy without much prodding as workers receive paychecks and invest in comfort and convenience within their understandings of healthy standards for their society.
I know this sounds melodramatic, but, in all sincerity Africa can renew it's understanding of leadership while building infrastructure for it's people. No longer can Africans rely on the character of personality only for their leadership, they need those that understand how to bring their nations to success and prosperity and strong sovereign borders.
Every African country should be a melting pot of many languages and traditions with tolerance of religious difference. It is a hard road to master, but, it can be done. African nations need constitutions that prohibit treason and mass murder and honor the well being and quality of life of every individual within it's society. To achieve these goals their economies have to grow from within and not simply Western gifts for comfort to the wealthy.
The terror attacks of September 21, 2013 is an example of the vast differences in social status of people within Kenya. The opportunities for militants to destroy African stability in the name of a better life for all has to end. The militants feed on poverty and acceptance of poverty for anyone is a strong goal to bring a stronger government with the loyalty of people to defend it.
THE OPPORTUNITY for disease to spread will be evident if sovereign stability is chronically disrupted. It can't be tolerated anymore. There are investors in many countries that want to bring quality of life to African countries, but, to realize their investments can turn to dust in an attack by militants only prolongs Africa's suffering and danger to the world. The African people deserve a far better quality of life and health care to match.
To those who understand the governing capacity of religion, in a perverted sense, isn't it easy to understand how militants can see a better SURVIVAL within Sharia and other hyper-conservative religions? Then The West wonders why people follow militant regimes even after a brutal takeover costing the lives of many. African countries cannot fall from grace anymore, they have to work for all their people. Extremism works for the impoverished. Why should those engaged in that form of governance believe it would not work for all in the world? How sophisticated are they normally? That is why the addition of Westerners to the populous of the Islamic State is so attractive and tolerated.
I understand Qatar is back to funding wayward regimes again with military equipment to end aerial attacks. The State Department has to get to the bottom of this softness in resolve. What is it, fear or simply religious visions in dreams that drives this?
October 28, 2014
By Robert F. Bukaty
FORT KENT, Maine (AP) — A nurse (click here) who was confined against her will at a hospital in New Jersey after treating Ebola patients in West Africa is in Maine, where state officials said she's agreed to be quarantined, officials said Tuesday.
Nurse Kaci Hickox traveled in a private vehicle to Maine where her partner is a nursing student at the University of Maine at Fort Kent, after leaving a New Jersey hospital on Monday.
Her lawyer confirmed Tuesday that she'd arrived in Maine and said she was at an "undisclosed location." Her boyfriend's home in Fort Kent was quiet, with no sign of activity Tuesday morning.
Maine health officials announced that she'll be quarantined at home for 21 days after the last possible exposure to the disease under the state's health protocols. But one of Hickox's lawyers, Steve Hyman, said he expected her to remain in seclusion for the "next day or so" while he works with Maine health officials....
