Understanding Ebola

  So right now, the most important issue is Ebola. Common knowledge shows the major reasons why:

• Its a virus so is harder to control eg HIV
• Its got no vaccine and no cure
• The corpse of an infected person can still transmit the disease
• Its transmitted by direct contact

  With all these information swirling around, the internet is rife with people's opinions and loads of diverse medical knowledge on the issue from very highly respected medical personnel. As such, a good start should be the thoughts of Michael Van Rooyen. As said of him on Harvard's website:

       "To better understand the disease and the threat it presents, the Gazette spoke with

         Michael VanRooyen, director of the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI), which

         works to improve humanitarian response to disasters around the world through

         training, research, and by developing tools that put information at responders’ fingertips.

        VanRooyen, a professor at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public

        Health and vice chairman of Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital’s

        Department of Emergency Medicine, has extensive experience responding to

        humanitarian crises, from the Rwandan genocide to the turmoil in the eastern

        Democratic Republic of the Congo to the 2010 Haiti earthquake, when HHI and

        physicians from Harvard-affiliated hospitals erected a field hospital to handle the

        injured."

Click here to read his thoughts on this fast spreading disease.