Liberia

Did a simple chimp start this killer disease? Animal carcasses carry any infection they are carrying for three days after they are dead. When people handle these carcasses they contract the Ebola virus. What areas have restrictions on Ebola, all hospitals are on alert, symptoms of Ebola, U.S. response to Ebola in Africa, world struggles to stop Ebola, Ebola virus causes rapid decline in African wildlife, and the U.S. believes to have promising vaccines for Ebola. Ebola is a dangerous disease…

I interviewed a beautiful and courageous woman, of African descent. She is from the western part of Africa. She was born and raised in Monrovia, Liberia on May 20, 1969. In addition, she has one biological brother and three step siblings. Now she is currently living in Loganville, Georgia where she resides with her two children. She has been married for twenty-one years to her loving high school sweetheart husband. Due to unfortunate circumstances, she lost her husband in the line of duty.…

The Spread of Ebola in West Africa Nancy V. Jaime National University Abstract The Ebola virus has become an epidemic spreading throughout West Africa including Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra Leone. The Ebola virus has killed thousands of people and infected millions of families including children. The natural reservoir for Ebola virus is derived from fruit bats and the transmission to humans is likely to be from bush meats, and direct human contact via bodily secretions (blood, saliva,…

Mathis, the class clown and the least assuming of the men I was training, was known as General Death during Charles Taylor's Civil War in Liberia. This name was earned through countless war crimes, the full array of which I can only speculate. The astonishment of this realization prompted me to take on the role of an amateur anthropologist and probe those willing to express their involvement…

could have done the job. This person was Sam Bockerie “Mosquito”, he earned the nickname for his ability to attack when his enemies were off guard. Bockerie started fighting in a force that was ran by Charles Taylor before he became President of Liberia. (Lucy, 2003). In other words, he was worse than Sankoh, he had…

illnesses present economic challenges as well. From an economic standpoint, foodborne illnesses wreak havoc. Not only do they reduce potential investments, they also place nations into a state of emergency. A perfect example includes Liberia. For those unaware, Liberia remains a nation in West Africa that remained devastated by the Ebola outbreak of 2014. Not only did the outbreak bring the nation's economy to a halt, it also killed thousands of people. In addition, countries such as Sierra…

was to interrupt chains of transmission” (2015), but Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea have all just recently emerged from years of civil war that has left as result very damaged or destroyed basic health infrastructures severely damaged or destroyed as well as generations of people with very little or no formal education. We should also take into account that the telecommunications, transportation services, and road systems are very weak in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea which delayed the…

“Staying Put” is an article written by Scott Russell Sanders in which he attempts to convince the readers that people can thrive in their homeland instead of moving. Sanders begins his argument with an anecdote of the Miller family, then he states the social and philosophical benefits of staying put. As Sanders have suggested, a person becomes admirable when they devote themselves to their homeland regardless of hardships they will encounter. Moreover, he also claims that people must have a…

For the majority of our lives we are aware of the social constraints that bound us to what we can do. These bounds have been set up to protect us from the major taboos that exist in human nature. However there are people that are raised in a culture in which for example, cannibalism is so embedded within the culture they don’t hesitate at the thought of practicing it. Particularly there are those who do it with the thought of power being transferred to them as they consume the flesh of their…

when Keita was only five years old from also one of the things that made him want to achieve this goal is that a girl was rapped and murdered as a child in his home town of Liberia. Keith received his high school diploma in two thousand sixteen, supported by the KidsRights Care and Study fund. He now attends university in Liberia, where he studies environmental science. Also, he won the international peace prize in two thousand fifteen.…