An Overview of Ebola

            Ebola is an epidemic that is growing at unstoppable rate. It kills nearly every human being it comes across. Ebola is becoming a worldwide contagious epidemic that even the world's superpowers such as US, United Kingdom and Canada are waking up to. As often as the world has gotten used to new viruses, Ebola is becoming as strange as it gets. We see every day on every news broadcast how it separates families apart. Ebola is a rare and deadly disease caused by infection with a strain of Ebola virus. The Ebola epidemic is the largest in history, affecting multiple countries in West Africa. Ebola is spread through direct contact with blood and body fluids of a person infected by and already showing symptoms of Ebola. Ebola is not spread through the air, water, food, or mosquitoes. It has killed nearly twenty-thousand people. .
             In the three West African countries (Liberia, Sierra Leon and Guinea) where the epidemic has affected the worst, Liberia has seen most infections and deaths. As seen on C.N.N (Cable News Network), dead bodies lay down on every street corner of the city. Since the disease is spread through body fluids, even the families of the dead are scared to bury their loved ones. But for some families, who despite knowing the dangers of the epidemic, stick to their cultures and wash their loved ones after their deaths who eventually succumb and fall victims to the deadly and contagious disease themselves. .
             Mr. James Hendy, a native of the ghost town of Monrovia, Liberia narrates what his routine is on daily basis and how death is on his doorstep every day. Showing signs of fatigue, Mr. Handy tells a Vice News anchor how transporting death has messed with his senses. In broken yet understandable English he says, "I pray every day before I start my long stressful day for Ebola to be go and disappear ". In an emotional tone he utters "Every day I transport approximately eighty to ninety patients, sixty to be dead bodies within twenty-four hours ".