Nigeria, Sierra Leone, and Liberia have been the areas hit the hardest by the epidemic. A interesting article at the website fourwinds10.net pointed to the abundance of natural resources found in those regions and the advantage it would be to have control of those resources.
Nigeria is a top ten country in supplying the world with oil and Sierra Leone is a top five world producer of diamonds. It doesn’t help that there is a long withstanding belief that there is an agenda for depopulation of the African citizens. This thought is not lost on the natives of the motherland. On the website doctorswithoutborders.org; Dr. Michel Van Herp a physician who worked in Guinea when the outbreak occurred was asked by a villager “Our ancestors never spoke about this disease, so why would this have changed today?” That’s a fair question and should be examined by us Americans since the virus has spread through the states. After AIDS and the constant threat of Cancer; why gives us something new to worry about?
It seems US Officials were preparing for the occasion, according to Dr. Mary Travis Bassett on MSNBC; officials have been making preparations since August. Some of the Doctors without Borders physicians who returned to New Jersey were quarantine after Ebola was found from a New York City doctor’s apartment. It seems that the ones getting affected are mainly health workers, which begs the question: Were the African people wrong for chasing those doctor’s out their community. You have to imagine, when dealing with researchers and people invading their land that they are more educated on the subject than we are. Those doctors and scientist in Africa are the equivalent of police walking through black neighborhoods here in America. It is no trust between the two parties.