Ebola – Are you at risk?

Abstract

The lethal Ebola virus had remained contained in one

area in Africa before it began to move on a vector

course to western Africa and possibly beyond. What

can account for this migration of a relatively

geographically static disease? People and animals

such as monkeys carry this disease and both migrate

for various reasons. Monkeys have market value and

may be captured in one area and transported to

another for transshipment to other countries carrying

diseases with them. People have become more

mobile than ever and disease can migrate at the

speed of air travel. What is especially problematic is

when a disease is initially asymptomatic and the

carrier is relocating with the disease and does not

know it.