CDC Must 'Rethink' Ebola Protocols (Essay Sample)

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CDC must 'rethink' Ebola protocols
According to the federal Center for Disease control, Ebola is classified as an emerging infectious disease with a rapid infection rate in the near future. The CDC further outlines that such a disease that can be an international threat also pose a grave challenge to health workers and ought to be treated with utter urgency. However, the infection of the infection of the second healthcare worker followed after a first infection, a clear indication the matter has not been responded to with the urgency it requires. Blame is therefore mounted on the existing public health policies. They need tremendous changes geared towards curtailing the deadly infectious diseases not only amongst the health workers but the entire human race (Nutt et al., 2014).
The fact that the worker was on a commercial flight further heightens the risks of spreading the disease from health workers attending to Ebola patients to the rest of the populations, for example the 132 passengers on board. What if a good number of these passengers contracted the disease from the nurse through remote possibilities? Obvious the public would have been in danger. With due regard, the federal organ responsible for appropriate measures ought to be held responsible for preventive measures against this killer disease (Yardley, Jim, 2014).
On a different angle, the health workers are held responsible for the spread of this disease. As a health worker, there are guidelines that ought to govern a situation under which a patient with this infection is being treated. The nurse had attended to an Ebola patient prior, hence high chances are that she contracted the disease from that scene. Possibly, it is out of negligence of professional guidelines that led to such. My concern is: should health workers be held liable for spread of Ebola in the West?
Another case of Ebola is Spanish elderly priest on board a special military jet in Madrid who alighted stricken with Ebola. The priest contracted the disease in Liberia before travelling to Spain. Under normal conditions, in a case where there is an outbreak of an infectious disease like Ebola, certain restrictive measures ought to be put in place at the boarders and thorough screening done at the airports and those found infected restrained from travelling. Obvious, this may not be the case in many situation (Nutt et al., 2014).
The current public health policies in western countries as well as other nations should be adequately revised if at ...