Everyone knows what Ebola is and what it did to some unfortunate countries in Africa. After the outbreak in 2014, we all thought that the disease was under control but what we didn’t know is that it isn’t under control and it comes at a cost for many people. What Alfred Jusson and many other people alongside him are doing, burying the infected dead bodies of Ebola victims, is extremely brave and takes guts to do. The odds of him surviving are severely stacked against him from the very beginning. More than 240 front-liners have been infected with the disease and out of the 1,038 patients he and the doctors have seen, only 241 have survived. The survival rate is a low 50% and that’s only if they catch the disease early on. These people are risking their lives every day and are basically labeled as a social outcast because people around them don’t realize the good they are doing for their community. They not only have to deal with other people but also their surroundings as they are working. They have to quickly disinfect\/douse the bodies with chlorine and transport them rapidly to a quarantined area that only them and other medical professionals are allowed to access. They even have to worry about their own sweat because this disease is transferable through bodily fluids. In my mind, this is too much stress and worry for a 22 year old to deal with. While they are over there stopping the spread of lethal disease and risking their lives, a 22 year old over here in the U.S. is just finishing college and heading onto a normal office job. I think that these people don’t need to do this alone and that surrounding countries and possibly even the U.S. need to chip in and help. Not only to save thousands of lives, but to also stop it from spreading. Because what could happen if another epidemic breaks out, over 20,000 people could be infected within a period of 6 months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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