My Opinion about the Ebola Outbreak

Today, I write about the problem about the Ebola outbreak. It is a disease which is expanding in some African countries such as Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone. These days, it is one of the biggest problems in the world because a lot of people were already dead and WHO declared the state of emergency for the world. Also, in my country, Japan, the media was reporting about the problem every day when I was in Japan.

Some countries decided to stop the support for a while because of the dangerous situation. Also, according to the article, Dr. Tom Frieden told that ''the more the world isolates and stop contacts with these countries, the harder it will be to stop the outbreak.''

I agree with his opinion. If we let them isolate and we stop contacts, the infection won’t stop and the situation will become worse. It is important to continue exchanging the information and support the countries. I have some reasons I think like that.

First, if we stop contact with these countries, we can’t have some important information from them. For example, we can’t know how many people have the disease and how many people died, how much the disease is expanding in the area. These are so significant information to know the state of the expansion and except whether it is a possibility to cause the expansion to other area. Stopping contacts with such a counties give us disadvantage.

Second, there are a lot of people who don’t know about the risk of virus and how to expand the virus. It means that the easygoing of behavior leads the expansion of the disease. It is necessary to export people who teach about the disease and how people should behave in the area. The education for people who live in such a countries is our important role.

Third, many countries which the virus spread are developing countries and people don’t get enough medical treatment against the disease. Also, the disease is expanding at a very high speed. Therefore, they developed countries should give medical support to them.  We should offer the medical technology both of human resources and material. For instance, governments send medical workers like doctors and nurses who want to go and lend them helping hands. Also, they can send medical instruments.

The third one is a short-term support. As a long-term support, countries which have high-quality medical technology should give the education of the medical technology to developing countries. It is helpful for developing countries to improve the medical skill.

For these reasons, I think that it is essential to last trading the information and support the countries and it connects to come to the end of the expansion.

*references*

''Window to Stop Ebola Outbreak Is ‘Closing Quickly,’ Official Warns  TIME''
http://time.com/3257769/ebola-outbreak-west-africa-cdc/ (09/07/2014)

''2014 Ebola Outbreak in West Africa-Outbreak Distribution Map
http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/resources/distribution-map-guinea-outbreak.html (09/07/2014)