The Ebola virus took many lives but scientist are realizing that some male survivors still show symptoms nine months later. Some patients even cleared the Ebola virus earlier than others. This outbreak can be compared to the ones in the late 1400s and early 1500s when the European Settlers came to the new world because it wasn't easy to get rid of. The European survivors became immune to a lot of their diseases but many Indians couldn't out live the foreign diseases because this was the first time they experienced them. Smallpox, measles, and influenza killed them because the Europeans had more medicines that were stronger than the few medicines the natives had.
This article is relevant to our lives today because it reminds us that we've been battling deadly diseases since Europeans came to the Americas. It is important because it reminds people that we can still be affected by diseases as a whole and it is sometimes hard to fight against them.
http://atlanta.cbslocal.com/2015/10/19/study-ebola-still-lives-in-semen-of-survivors-for-at-least-9-months/
It's really crazy that despite all the discoveries and improvements we've made in medicine, new deadly diseases are still continuing to take the lives of people.
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I agree that we've come a long way in medicine, and that's improved our quality of life, but we can't assume that we are prepared for every conceivable pandemic because of it.
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