Ebola, a very contagious disease that spreads through bodily fluids such as saliva & sweat, can spread very quickly through a population. Due to this, the Liberian Government set up roadblocks and asked people to stay in their homes in an attempt to slow the disease. The economic toll this and other restrictions, such as the stopping of flights to Liberia, caused fewer goods to be able to make it to the people. this scarcity creates inflation, with inflation comes the higher cost of goods and increases the hardship for the population. the fear of Ebola caused many to stay away from public gatherings which in turn causes hardships for the Liberian market traders who found they could not meet their needs. The infectious nature of Ebola means that patients need to be treated in isolation, along with that comes the psychological stress of separation from loved ones. This causes an additional strain not only on the infected but
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In the case of the native people, The Huron(or the Wyandot), an outbreak of smallpox in the summer of 1639 1 caused the population to be reduced to 9000 which was about half of the population that was held in 1634. We can see that a reduction of 50% of the populace increased the strain on them in ways that parallel what had happened in Liberia. The losses from the disease weakened the community, with fewer people to hunt and grow crops it resulted in smaller yields. with smaller yields came scarcity of food and goods between them, without the necessary goods to keep their society running, the losses they suffered were only worsened. The most susceptible to the disease were the elderly and the children. Because of this, and due to the unwritten nature of the native peoples' history, the loss of cultural knowledge such as when to plant and how to hunt only exacerbated the strain on their
In the case of the native people, The Huron(or the Wyandot), an outbreak of smallpox in the summer of 1639 1 caused the population to be reduced to 9000 which was about half of the population that was held in 1634. We can see that a reduction of 50% of the populace increased the strain on them in ways that parallel what had happened in Liberia. The losses from the disease weakened the community, with fewer people to hunt and grow crops it resulted in smaller yields. with smaller yields came scarcity of food and goods between them, without the necessary goods to keep their society running, the losses they suffered were only worsened. The most susceptible to the disease were the elderly and the children. Because of this, and due to the unwritten nature of the native peoples' history, the loss of cultural knowledge such as when to plant and how to hunt only exacerbated the strain on their