The challenges and problems of the Ebola virus outbreak in Africa 2014 - 2016

Scientific Essay from the year 2019 in the subject Health - Public Health, grade: Pass, James Cook University, language: English, abstract: This paper is about the challenges and problems of the Ebola virus outbreak in Africa in 2014 until 2016. The public health response faced multiple problems and challenges. Over the time, multiple scientists dealt with the topic and published several papers and studies. Today, the knowledge we have received through the outbreak can be used to handle future outbreaks properly. The outbreak of the Ebola disease in West Africa between 2014 and 2016 was the biggest outbreak of the Ebola virus. Outbreaks of diseases are a danger to states and residents. Their treatment requires special trained and skilled staff, mostly expensive programs and quick intervention due to a possible lack of time. In our modern time, public health and crisis managers must be able to manage complicated situations, they need to face problems like organisational chaos, stress and inaccurate information with the pressure of social and other media in their backs.