The world needs to quarantine the entire area and let the disease burn itself out.
I know it sounds inhumane, but this is a very dangerous plague. Better to shoot a few people trying to escape than allow the disease to become established in a city like Lagos with millions in close proximity, then start spreading across the globe.
I know it sounds inhumane, but this is a very dangerous plague. Better to shoot a few people trying to escape than allow the disease to become established in a city like Lagos with millions in close proximity, then start spreading across the globe.
Well said and anyone with a even modicum of intelligence would agree. In fact, had Thomas Eric Duncan been handled in such no-nonsense a manner, the Obola outbreak in America would have been eliminated at the source.
No, it simply won't work. If your cat has rabies, they don't quarantine the neighborhood and shoot all outgoing cats, raccoons, etc. The disease would have burned itself out already just like previous times it escaped from the reservoir except for the incredibly primitive and ignorant people taking acute patients to the hospital in taxis, the people washing bodies at home, the people doing home burials, the village that murdered the ebola tracing team.
Contrary to the oft-repeated myth, Ebola is hard to catch if the victim is not acute. Therefore the correct way to handle the epidemic is to find the acute victims and get them into isolated treatment centers. Part of that strategy is to cordon off areas. That is not to quarantine and burn out as you suggest but just another way to find the acute cases and remove them at the time they are able to spread.
They tried your method once (West Point slum). It failed. What happened instead of burning out, it remained endemic, a case here and a case there. In other words it became a human reservoir. That is a much worse situation than opening the slum, finding the acute cases and removing them and that is what they started doing now. Unfortunately all the treatment centers are full and they are short on staff to find and track cases. But that is a different and solvable problem.
Nigeria had 22 cases over a month ago. They’ve had none since.