Do you remember a couple of months ago about the most dramatic problem that the whole world had? The Ebola was spreading quickly, and to everywhere. Even in here, in Spain we had some cases of infection. Although we haven't heard anything about it since then , the drama is not over.
According to this article, two militars (from Britain and America) who had been helping people in Sierra Leone are infected by ebola. Those soldiers were trying to combat against ebola by trying to control the virus. Both of them were members of an assotiation called Partners In Health, and their aim is to help impoverish countries.
We completely forgot about Ebola since we are not in danger to get infected. I'm sure that this happens also in another counties who had suffered it but if the problem is not over, we should help. I feel helpless because we, as citizens can't do anything. There are a lot of diseases that need to be cured. We have the proof that Ebola can spread easily. Are we waiting for a second round? This might sound very cynical, but we are not helping, the majority of the world is not trying to irradicate the virus. Two months ago all the politicials were concerned about it, nowadays nobody cares.
It might be unconciously, but we are very selfish. Perhaps we don't have the resources to fix it, but I have a foreboding that if we had the resources, we wouldn't be doing nothing to stop Ebola (because it doesn't affect us directly).
News source: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/13/world/europe/british-health-worker-infected-with-ebola-in-sierra-leone.html?ref=health
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