Ebola Disease and Health Care Workers Heroism

Abstract

Table 1: Viral Families Causing Viral Hemorrhagic Fever The hemorrhagic fever generally has had local character, but changes in climatic conditions have affected the localizations and outbreaks. Due to their aggressive character, all the time, these diseases have been a challenge for health care system. It is certain that every disease have their way of spread, but nowadays people movements from a country to another and the development of tourism has make their prevalence impossible to control or manage. This article is not focus on epidemiology, etiology, transmission and clinical aspect of the Ebola disease, but in the heroism of health care workers. For instance, these epidemic infections are found even in the health care workers. These cases can be only explained by evidencing the difficulties in securing protective medical equipment (PPE), getting the right information about the disease etc. In particularly referring to Ebola, this is known since her first outbreak in 1976 in Zaire [1-4]. This outbreak was the first recognition of the disease. Since then, there have been chronological outbreaks of Ebola virus disease. Last Ebola outbreaks have started in the beginning of this year and the following countries: Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea constitute about 97% of all cases. The Ebola epidemic is the largest in history and it is affecting multiple countries in West Africa and so on some acquired cases in healthcare workers in the US. The mortality rate of this epidemic disease is increasing at very threatening levels. Since December 2013, and as of 12 October 2014, 8 997 cases of EVD, including 4 493 deaths, have been reported by the World Health Organization (WHO) in seven reporting countries (Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Spain and the USA) [2]. On the other hand according to the last surveys of WHO this is the first world epidemic that has reached a record figure at a very high range by infecting the healthcare workers [3].