Ebola Trilogy (click here)
Telling extraordinary stories of courage and perseverance, the groundbreaking HBO Documentary Films Orphans of Ebola, Body Team 12 (2016 Oscar® nominee for Best Documentary Short) and Ebola: The Doctors’ Story each approach the pandemic that claimed thousands of lives from different perspectives. Following the doctors, the response teams and the children left orphaned by this devastating disease, the trilogy paints a picture of the Ebola crisis over a period of eight months, from the outbreak’s rapid escalation, through the height of the epidemic, to its waning. Ranging from international response teams, to local citizen-responders, to ordinary families, the documentaries highlight the urgent need to treat the sick, the grim and dangerous collection of the dead, and the aftermath of survivors picking up the pieces....
Of course compassion matters. We are all Ebola when there is one person infected with Ebola. There are medicines that helped such as malaria treatment, broadspectrum antibiotic, pain medicine and fluids for rehydration.
But, the real miracle with Ebola is that a person infected if fed with nutritional food and fluids such as milk/formula for infants and young children or water for older children and adults live through the ravages of the disease to have their immune system develop antibodies and they become well.
There are those that die, but, there is a reason such as dehydration or a secondary infection or being so ill they cannot eat and they waste into a death. They are provided pain medicine as necessary and we know a patient does better with their own immunity when there is no pain.
A person with a healthy body is not immune from Ebola. It is a hemorrhagic disease and attacks the very blood system that would work to protect the body. It attacks it with such vigor a person has to be maintained on good nutritional status in order to replenish the very fluids and viability to develop an immune response. It robs the human being of time to create it's antibodies. It is a vicious disease with only one purpose, to live at the expense of the host.
The caregivers in this documentary are amazing. The filmmakers brave beyond their important work. The patients are wonderful in that they believe in the hope doctors and caregivers can bring them. There are survivors.
It is all good, except, it should have come sooner for many other outbreaks.
Ebola with this outbreak taught the world an important lesson. Health, clean water and good living habits such as eliminating vermin that are vectors from any village or town. The people that died did not have a chance because they lacked a healthy body to begin with. That is the moral lesson of Ebola. The world forgot to look in on the profoundly impoverished.
Ebola with this outbreak taught the world an important lesson. Health, clean water and good living habits such as eliminating vermin that are vectors from any village or town. The people that died did not have a chance because they lacked a healthy body to begin with. That is the moral lesson of Ebola. The world forgot to look in on the profoundly impoverished.
