Ebola: Coming to a street near you?

So, all the fear of the centuries, the lingering dread of The Black Death, the great Influenza of 1910;  and those occasional modern pandemics such as Aids, Avian Flu, Swine Flu, Chernoble and Fukiyama, are rearing their heads while we are ducking ours.

 Since 1976 when the name of a little know African river gave its dreaded name to a modern scurge, we in the west have considered Ebola to be a disease that only happened in those poor, exploited, third-world countries where death does not register on any scale of concern and containment didn’t matter.

Now that Ebola has settled into Dallas, Madrid and the powers know how many other countries, suddenly the old fears come back to haunt and “The Black Death” takes on another meaning. The Centres for Disease Control and its partners has popped its head above the parapet and is outlining precaution measures against its spread and about its treatment. It seems that with all our sofistication the

This Ebola epidemic is the largest in history, affecting multiple countries in West Africa. Although the risk of an Ebola outbreak in the United States is very low, CDC and partners are taking precautions to prevent this from happening. One travel-associated case was diagnosed in the United States on September 30, 2014. On October 12, 2014, a healthcare worker at Texas Presbyterian Hospital who provided care for the index patient has tested positive for Ebola. CDC confirms that the healthcare worker is positive for Ebola. For more information, see: Cases of Ebola Diagnosed in the United States.