Ebola scare in the U.S. is another issue that concerned authorities have to deal with since the disease 'arrived' in the country. It seemed that this have "infected somewhere close to 300 million".
According to the Chief Executive of Texas A&M Health Science Center Dr. Brett Giroir, the coming and the 'spread' of the virus led to people's distrust. It makes it difficult to assure the public that Ebola "would not spread beyond Thomas Eric Duncan, with the first case of Ebola diagnosed in the United States".
In a report in August, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention stated that hospitals and state labs have managed at least 68 cases of Ebola scare in the U.S. Of this number, 58 were considered false alarms. Blood samples of the 10 were brought to CDC or testing. Seven of which were tested negative. Three were still awaiting results.
In other news, parents in Mississippi pulled out their children in middle school when they have found out that the school principal traveled to Zambia, a country in Africa but without a reported case of Ebola.
Navarro College is also reported to have rejected some applicants from Nigeria because the country has recorded cases of Ebola (only a few, though).
All these are evident cases of overreactions. Mel Robbins, a CNN commentator and legal analyst, called this hysteria "Fear-bola".
She shared, "Fear-bola attacks the part of the brain responsible for rational thinking. It starts with a low-grade concern about the two health care workers diagnosed with Ebola in Dallas and slowly builds into fear of a widespread epidemic in the United States."
Researchers were not surprised with Ebola fear. The head of the division of bioethics at New York University Langone Medical Center in New York City, Arthur Caplan said in an interview, "This is a disease of mysterious origin with a really high death rate and scary symptoms."
But Ebola scare in the U.S. should not come about. Forbes writes, "The United States' built-in defenses are stronger than this infection." Likewise, US President Barack Obama said, "In a country like the United States that has a strong public health infrastructure and outstanding health workers and hospitals and systems, the prospect of an outbreak here is extremely low. If people want to make sure that as we go into the holiday season their families are safe, the very best thing they can do is make sure that everybody in the family is getting a flu shot. Because we know that tens of thousands of people will be affected by the flu this season, as is true every season."
