Ebola In Texas

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Diseases have been present in populations for thousands and thousands of years. The sudden outbreak of Ebola in Texas has brought a negative light to all Texans. The movement of perceiving Texans negatively due to this disease is unfortunate. Dallas is now a pariah in the world’s view because it is where the first Ebola patient surfaced. At both the local and national levels, extreme overreaction bordering on hysteria regarding Ebola is escalating and spreading. From a Maine elementary school teacher being put on a twenty one day administrative leave because she attended a professional conference in Dallas, to Dallas-Fort Worth area children staying home from school, irrational and misplaced panic is now commonplace. Dallas’s image is being hurt because non-residents believe that everyone in Dallas has Ebola, should be immediately quarantined and travel to and from Dallas is unsafe. The media has greatly contributed to the public’s fear and distrust of the Dallas area, people that live or work here and Dallas-area hospitals. Based on medical research regarding how the disease is actually spread - only through exposure to an infected person’s bodily fluids, not through the air or casual contact - instituting …show more content…

For this, the nurses and doctors that work at Texas Presbyterian as well as the hospital itself have been and continue to be vilified by the media. Adding to the confusion, the Center for Disease Control lacked proper Ebola containment procedures, leaving Texas Presbyterian scrambling to deal with both the disease and the media frenzy and public panic surrounding it. Flu season is upon us and mistrust of hospitals and hospital workers may convince those that actually need treatment to not get it. The Ebola panic could actually turn into an influenza

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