War Coalition to Eradicate Ebola

I read an article in Wellness.com recent news from Yale researchers Predict "Catastrophic" Ebola Epidemic in West Africa If Aid Delayed. (HealthDay). Now, we have an ER doc returned from an endemic area, after noble service, but in a New York Hospital with Ebola, his fiancé at high risk, and out in the public last 3 days not feeling well. Obviously, his self-monitoring quarantined plan failed.


If the industrial countries can form a war coalition for World Wars I and II, Korea, Gulf, etc., why not do the same for humanitarian reasons to help these endemic areas, while helping global safety and economy? Public health measures eradicated small pox off the planet with vaccines and public health principles of isolation, containment, and quarantine.


Quoting from the same article: What's needed, according to the Yale team, are better diagnosis, treatment and prevention efforts on the ground in Liberia and in the two other countries affected by Ebola, Guinea and Sierra Leone. Essential elements include more Ebola treatment center beds, a five-fold increase in the rapidity at which new Ebola cases are identified, and the distribution of protective kits to households containing anyone already infected to cut the rate of Ebola's spread, the researchers said.


I suggest a “War" coalition to eradicate. Fly in needed supplies, shelter, medical care, and food. Chartered air flights can bring asymptomatic health workers and other volunteers back to their host countries to a military base for quarantine.Traveling public need to quarantine at departing venues under war-coalition-approved shelters before using public transportation. Vaccine I am sure is in the works. The goal is to remove Ebola and other filoviruses now “living" in the human race, just like smallpox.

10/24/2014 7:00:00 AM
Donald McGee
Written by Donald McGee
Dr. Donald McGee is the Founder of Wellness.com, a Board Certified M.D., graduated from Mt Sinai School of Medicine in New York, and has an accredited PhD in Health Studies from Saybrook Institute in San Francisco. He is also a Diplomate of the American Board of Emergency Medicine as well as a Fellow of the American ...
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