Large popularity of African immigrants make worries in United States. It make worst after one Liberian man infected with Ebola being treated in Texas.
Many Americans have little knowledge of Africa’s geography and the politics of countries on the continent, some African immigrants said they have felt a backlash because of the infection in Dallas from Americans who cannot distinguish Liberia in the west from Libya in the north.
Many immigrants in Texas are also quick to offer thanks to the US and its people for taking them in, but say handshakes are fewer and curious glances more frequent after the Ebola discovery in Dallas.
The Dallas case, the first diagnosed case of Ebola in the US has put authorities and the public on alert over concerns that the worst epidemic of Ebola on record could spread from West Africa, where it began in March.
The epidemic has hit hardest in improverished Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea. There were nearly two million people in the US who came from sub-Saharan Africa, according to US Census data from 2010.
A few see a silver ling in Ebola landing in the United States in that it will focus the attention of the world’s richest country on eliminating a disease that has killed thousands in some of the world’s poorest countries.
Handling medical waste generated by an Ebola patient proved to be one of the contingencies that United States hospitals are unprepared for, a top US health official said. T
The US Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) thoughtt the disposal issue was resolved on Sept 26, two days before the first Ebola patient diagnosed in the US was admitted to a Dallas hospital after initially being turned away.
Conflicting classifications on Ebola waste have forced the hospital to wait for the Transport Department to issue a special permit before it could move the material.
While waiting the hospital held the waste in the unit where Duncan was in isolation.
– Agencies
-Reuters
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