Hvorfor tapes kampen mot Ebola?
Sykelig grådighet i u-land kan ligge ved roten
av det onde, mener en noe uavhengig ekspert.
" a new model from Oxford University, published in the
journal eLife, predicts that the epidemic is likely
to spread to at least 15 additional countries "...
"The answer lies largely in the policies of looting
and primitive accumulation that have been imposed on this
region, and which play a major role in the outbreaks of
zoonotic diseases
(those that jump between animals and humans)."...
/Why Isn't Ebola Containment Working?/
"Standard public-health measures that have helped contain
diseases like SARS and smallpox are simple enough:
Find everyone who had close contact with infected individuals
and quarantine them for 21 days. If any of these contacts
comes down with the disease in question, isolate them
from the community and repeat the process by tracking
the contacts' contacts.
But such measures have proven to be completely ineffective
and inadequate in this Ebola outbreak.
This is partly due to the nature of the disease itself.
By the time someone infected with Ebola becomes symptomatic,
they are often within days of death.
Additionally, the early symptoms of Ebola infection are almost
identical to those presenting with malaria and a host of other
diseases, themselves at epidemic levels.
But, even when an infected individual is identified,
there are no contact tracing systems in place in these
countries"...
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