Hemorrhaging fear

20081 Ebola cases in West Africa were recorded on the penultimate day of 2014. A year wrought with misnomer and confusion that exposed the complete folly of first world countries where ultimately there have only been 5 cases. That is a total of 0.02% of the global burden; a burden I might add that was enough to send main stream America into a panic that had at least a handful of people wearing face masks on planes travelling from Detroit to New Orleans 8,746km away from the epicentre of the outbreak.

It took the treatment of 2 health care workers in Atlanta and the deaths of 2400 people in Africa for the American administration to send 3000 members of the US army to help in the fight against the spread in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. Spain of course greatly contributed to the fight when officials decided to put the dog of an infected health worker down, even when there was no scientific basis for ending Excalibur's life.  It is concerning to me that in an age where as much as 31 percent of the world's demand for bauxite, cobalt, gold, manganese, phosphate and uranium is supplied by Africa, the death of its people was of little concern until their disease breeched the first world. 

Ignorance can best be explained by this gem from Donald Trump

So basically do good things for the world and you deserve to get a deadly disease. It's a wonder Mother Theresa didn't die of tuberculosis. Yes Africa is the source of many zoonotic diseases but that's because there are larger areas of Virgin mother nature that is more habitable than many other places in the world. Slowly but surely we are encroaching on habitats of things we don't understand yet, interestingly not only because of population expansion but ironically because of the human races intense requirement for more of everything. These sorts of outbreaks are not the concern of the people they infect first but of the whole world. This is not the time for selfish behaviour otherwise at the end of 2015 we will have a pandemic out of Africa that kills millions all around the world. Sound familiar?