Africa's Worst Disease in Years: Ebola

The geographic themes of movement and interaction of humans in the environment prove that geography is destiny in the Western African society, because it shows how the Ebola disease is spreading and how aid is hard to access.  

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The movement  theme of geography shows how aid and supplies are difficulty transported, along with medical personnel.  According to “Africa News Service,” in the article, “Obama Commits ‘Military Assets’ for the Ebola Health-Care Surge,”  troops are being sent in to the region to help set up more advanced medical facilities, and isolation camps.  Troops are needed to build these structures along with private organizations.  And as the growing problem of Ebola, reaching the U.S. shores, has taken over the internet, President Obama says,”Americans shouldn't be concerned about the prospects of contagion here in the United States, short term. Because this is not an airborne disease.”  The president also spoke about how far the treatments have come.  Therefore, this shows how movement can effect on global projects, like the Ebola outbreak.

​The interaction between humans and their environment, theme of geography shows how the Ebola outbreak has spread quickly and how people in the region are affected.  According to the "New York Times," in the article, “ New Thinking about Ebola Treatments,” the U.S. has to lead the fight against Ebola because it is one of the only capable countries, with medicine and supplies. “The new proposal would fill the gap by using drugs that have already been approved to treat other diseases and repurposing them to treat Ebola as well,” the article explains. In the Western african countries many people are incapable of getting helpful treatments, so using the alternative of using pre-made packaged medicine will get out to the masses quicker, rather than creating a new treatment, that would take months to years to make.  

As people in the Western African region, create higher and higher risks of infection, geography does decide their destiny.  As the growing concerns about it hitting other places, and how to cure Ebola, pressure is building up to solve these problems.  Between the sanitation and lack of medicine, both movement and interaction create the Western African society’s destiny.