HOW SHOULD AFRICAN COUNTRIES RESPOND TO EBOLA CRISIS?Thesis Ebola virus disease which is also called Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever is a virus that belongs to the Filoviridae family and causes fever in humans and primates. Government of African countries should take some measure to ensure the following: the masses are being educated about the epidemic, restrict movement from infected countries to Ebola free countries, infected countries should take maximum security measures on information to be published in journals and reports, the government should provide fund, facilities and materials for treatment and research centers for research works. The government should check epidemic related disease in the past such as Yellow Fever; how it escalated, what to learn from the epidemic, and how it can be useful to tackle Ebola virus.Ebloa was firstly The re-emergence of Ebola in 2013 leading to anepidemic which is still going strong in 2014, is a typicallyunpredictable event, in keeping with the chequeredhistory of this viral illness. Named after the Ebola rivervalley where the first reported outbreak occurred, the virushas shown endemic activity with intermittent outbreakssince 1976. The virus was relatively quiescent in the 1980sand returned with a vengeance in the mid-1990s. The storyof the current outbreak began in Gueckedouin (Guinea)where, on 6 December 2013, a 2-year-old boy was affected.Nobody would have imagined that this index case would bethe start of the largest outbreak of Ebola, resulting (till thepresent date) in over 2,500 clinical cases and more than1,300 deaths.What differentiates this outbreak from the previousones is not just its magnitude (past outbreaks resultedin a maximum of a few hundred cases), but its first everappearance in west African countries (Guinea, Liberia,Sierra Leone and Nigeria). The Guinea strain is avariant of the Zaire Ebola virus (ZEV), but haemorrhagicmanifestations are not as apparent this time around,leading to the use of the term Ebola virus disease (EVD)instead of Ebola haemorrhagic fev

The Ebola virus was first identified in a western equatorial province of Sudan and in the nearby region of Zaire now the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Between June and November 1976, 284 people were infected with Ebola virus in Sudan, 318 in republic of Congo and after two years in Sudan, 33 causing a total death of 453. In 1989 to 1996, The Ebola Reston from monkeys imported from the Philippines to the USA and to Italy. In October 2000, Ebola was reported in Gulu district in northern Uganda. On December 2003, several Ebola outbreaks of the Zaire subtype were reported in Gabon and the Republic of the Congo with a total of 302 cases and 254 deaths. According to lssac Brooch and Maria Creatore et al major problems prominently affecting African countries regarding eradication of Ebola virus includes: lack of facilities, lack of well-trained qualified personnel to conduct experiments and fund necessary for the experiments. The African government in partnership with world health organization (WHO) should deploy scientists from developed countries such as, Canada, Russia, and United States of America, to join the African scientists to conduct experiments on the Ebola epidemic. Also, funds should be solicited from world health organization (WHO), to help combat the Ebola virus outbreak and address the broader humanitarian and security implications of the crisis. The government should provide a room where patients infected with the Ebola virus will be quarantined, trained hospital personnel should also be informed on how they can protect themselves from contacting the virus while treating the infected. This article recommends that government should provide necessary condition for eradication of Ebola is a good evidence for my essay.Frieden, Thomas R., Damon, Inger, Et al The England Journal of Medicine New Challenges, new Global Response and Responsibility 371 (2015): 1177-1180. Web. 11 February 2015The government should educate the masses about Ebola outbreak. Thomas Frieden and Inger Damon, Et al gave an overview that education is one of the most powerful means to convey information. In the rural area, people are faced with greater threat of Ebola virus than people living in the urban area due to lack of knowledge about the epidemic. People living in the rural area do not know what Ebola is, how it can be transmitted and symptoms of the virus. As a result of this, high rate of Ebola patient come from this area. Governments can initiate means of conveying information to the masses through the use of media, set up committee of trained personnel to move round the villages. They could also organize education summit to inform the masses about the epidemic. In addition, the government should distribute hand sanitizers to encourage the masses to wash their hands before eating any kind of food. As a result, the government will be able to reduce the growing rate of infected people in the country. Education is a good means to convey information to the masses as evident in my essay.Lemontagne, Francois., Clement, Christopher Et al Doing todays work superbly well-Treating Ebola with current tool. The New England Journal of Medicine, 371 (2014): 1565-1566. Web. 11 February 2015. Francois lemontagne and Christopher, Et al recommends that the government should ensure that movement is restricted from infected countries to non-infected countries. The most trending means of transmitting contagious disease is by movement from one place to the other. Due to the fact that Ebola is highly contagious, drastic measures should be taken by the government on the restriction of people travelling from infected countries such as Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone to Ebola free countries. Information should be passed down to the neighbouring countries to restrict people from coming into their country as well. Therefore to ensure this, government should stop all air flights travelling to and from infected countries and strict security should be held at the bounders of their countries to restrict the movement. People might think that the government of different countries are restricting them on their right of movement to neighbouring country with Ebola virus, but in the right sense of mind, the government is trying to stabilize and reduce the epidemic outbreak by restraining the virus to a particular area. Restricting movement from Ebola infected country to Ebola free country is necessary and evident in my essay.Regis, Ed. Virus Ground Zone. New work: Simon and Schuster Inc, 1996. PrintAccording to Ed Regis , as a result of the epidemic outbreak in Africa, journalist and reporter from different parts of the world have been on the quest of finding out the source of the recent outbreak in Africa and reporting back to their stations. If the government allows journalists and reporters to gain access to the rooms where the Ebola victims are being kept to take pictures and interrogate them to make up a report, they will end up causing more problem for the government. This means that when those pictures and report are sent to the media, it will not only cause anxiety and fear to the public, but also, journalist and reporters stand a high risk of getting infected by the disease. At this stage, journalist and reporters should not be allowed by the government to come close to room where the Ebola patients are kept. Journalists and reporters should be restricted from facilities where infected patient are kept, is necessary and evident in my essay.Walker, David H, James, Thomas N. Global infection Disease. New York : Springer Verlag, 1992. Print.David H Walker gave an overview that the government should research related epidemic disease that occurred in the past, such as yellow fever, determine how it escalated, mode of transmission of the epidemics, and how useful the research can be in curing Ebola outbreak. Yellow fever was first reported in the 1970, in South America, were 100 to 300 cases was identified. In the year 1986, it was discovered in Africa, precisely in Nigeria, it was reported that within a short period of time, Nigeria recorded 1000 to 3000 cases of yellow fever. This was as a result of the country not identifying the disease and not taking proper measure to cure the disease. 32,728 deaths were recorded in Nigeria as a result of yellow fever. The rural area recorded 80% of this death. People living in this area prefer to be treated by the traditional herbalist than the western health professionals, as result of this, people living in this area are more threatened by the epidemic. Therefore, government should take report of the disease and proper measure so that the Ebola virus does not spread. This page discuses that the government should research related epidemic disease in the past is necessary and evident in my essay.