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If you’ve been paying attention to the news then you’ve undoubtedly heard that the world is possibly on the brink of a deadly outbreak of the extremely lethal Ebola virus. As it is in Africa, doctors are having a majorly difficult time containing the virus even though they’re taking great measures to do so, and Sierra Leone has actually declared a state of emergency because it’s spreading so rapidly.
The World Health Organization said that the outbreak, which so far has killed over 700 people in Africa, is the worst on record. The group Doctors Without Borders echoed their statements and said that the situation is “out of control.” But despite the dire warnings, for the first time in history it’s on American soil.
This particular virus has never made it into the United States because we’ve taken great caution to ensure the African-born sickness stays as far away from here as possible due to the extremely high mortality rate for those who contract it along with how quickly it spreads. This illness is deadly and it’s scary, and it has to potential to kill millions of people should an outbreak happen since there’s no cure or vaccine for it, so why would the President allow two people infected with it into the country?
We’re told that because we have the best healthcare systems in the world that the patients stand a much better chance of survival if they’re brought back here. While this may be true, it doesn’t answer the question of containment, which is the true issue with allowing infected patients back into the country.
Duke University found that between 2008 and 2012 an antibiotic-resistant bacteria called “nightmare bacteria” spread by a factor of five across U.S. hospitals. The particular bacteria, carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE), has a mortality rate of nearly 50% yet hospitals have failed to find a way to quarantine and eradicate it. The CDC also found that 1 in 25 hospitalized patients contract some form of infection every single day, and that from 2001 to 2013 CRE spread from a single hospital to facilities in as many as 46 different states.
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Mad World News: This is Why Bringing Ebola Patients Into America Isn’t a Good Idea
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