Ebola, The game to avoid hunger?

Ebola, The game to avoid hunger?

By Francisco Ramos

Days ago checking on Facebook, I found a picture with an African baby boy, the photo had a short text, it says: “Hunger kills more than Ebola, but it's not considered a significant problem since rich people can't die for it”.

Immediately, I start my research about how many children die of hunger, even knowing that rich people won't die of Ebola either. While I was reading I remembered, -Ebola came from Africa-, maybe their principal problem now is the combination of hunger plus Ebola, which would be very bad. The result was different from you may be thinking...

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention web size says that Ebola is “affecting multiples countries in West Africa”, but the word 'multiples' talk intrinsically about Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia; those are the only three countries that have more than 4,000 people infected; all other countries in Africa are free of Ebola.

From March 2014 until October 29th, The World Health Organization has reported 4,951 official cases of people who Ebola has killed, 20 people per day, one per hour; being the principal outbreak since 1976, when it was discovered.

Please dear reader, don't misinterpret what I'm about to say, is very sad for me to know that all those people died, but thanks to the effort of many nations we can see almost everything about Ebola under control, and even seeing adverse nations as USA and Cuba working together against it to find a vaccine.

But at once, I feel an increasing hysteria or morbid around the topic from media (and infect public opinion by the way) that at the time it is going to finish with the skepticism of the people. And as I said, knowing that rich people won't die of Ebola either, which is good, let's finish this theater of fear and focus our attention in what really matter without, of course, underestimate or neglect the true world situation.