Is Ebola more of a Fear than an actual threat?

Ebola has been around for many, many years and yet we are just now starting to freak out about it. One question I have among many others is why? I realize that due to our scare about it being brought into the United States we are freaked out that it might take your life next. But, as I heard from many different new reports and even my AP Biology teacher said that it is isn’t able to go through the air and many scientists believe that it isn’t going to be able to mutate itself to do that. At least, not right now.

                I do believe however that we should take precautions without going to overboard with it. For example, we need to stay as hygienic as we possibly can, and we can do that by washing our hands and not sharing any food or drinks with anyone. We mostly need to keep our bodily fluids to ourselves so in order to do that, if you don’t feel good, I believe it would be at best interest to yourself and to everyone around you that you stay home and away from everyone. This allows you to replenish your body’s energy so that it is able to go on functioning properly. Another thing you can do is cover your mouth with your hand or elbow to decrease the amount of body fluid from spreading to others.

                So once again I will say, why is there so much concern with this disease spreading now than 10 years ago? The best solution I have for that is the fact that now that it’s in our own comfort zone, we don’t know what to do. We always thought we were safe and just felt bad for the people in Africa dealing with this. Of course we probably said, let’s go cure them, but did anyone go over? Maybe a few but not a lot because we didn’t want the disease because we wouldn’t know what to do with it. So now that the disease is in our country, and has affected a few people, we now are thinking that we are inferior because a disease that wasn’t even supposed to be here is affecting us and we can’t stop it. That is a big psychology concept, the fact that if you believe something for a long time and then you are suddenly changed from that way of thinking, you don’t know how to react.

                I think once again that we should just keep our sanitation up so that we can try and limit the spread of germs, but there isn’t much to be scared of, unless the disease finds a way to mutate itself, which is very unlikely.