U.S. Soldiers Against Ebola

     Welcome to the second post of JBerrios Carrier. Today I want talk about something that affected very hard the population of the world in the last year. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention inform that Ebola affected the West Africa with 14,379 Laboratory-Confirmed Cases and is the cause of death of 9,840 people. The Ebola is an old disease that affects Africa since 1976 when it appeared in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.  Every year the Ebola affects the population of Africa, but last year the percent of cases in Liberia and other parts of the West Africa increase and affected different countries around the world. The easily form to acquire the virus was the most problem to resolve, because the people traveled to different cities and moved the virus for different areas. For example in the United States we had 8 cases of Ebola where survived 6 of them, but these cases alerted the government of the danger that exists with this disease. 

     President Obama sent around 3,000 soldiers to Africa for fight against this terrible disease. The mission wasn’t simple, because the main objective was eliminate the Ebola in the West Africa. Also they attended the people disease in the area.  This mission was part of the Operation Onward Liberty where the Department of Defenses (DoD) trained 1,539 heath care workers and support staff and 30 member medical support team. Also they created 10 DoD Ebola treatment units, 25 Monrovian medical unit, 7 mobile labs and contracted for the procurement of 1.4 million set of personal protective equipment, with the total cost of 384.9 million dollars. The soldiers here were used for the construction of the centers, training personnel, doctors and security. This month the soldiers that participated in the mission came back to U.S.

     The equipment of this mission wasn't rifles or bombs, this mission was science and health development for cure that people that need the help and avoid more cases around the world. This is a great example of the missions that the soldiers do every year and something anybody remember because they don’t use a rifle, but they use vaccines. Soldiers that put in other side their families and traveled to West Africa where the most of people don’t want go, because the risk was very high, and did their job. To every soldier who was part of this great work, thank you and welcome home warriors!

Ebola, (n.d), The Center for Disease Control and Prevention. March 9 2015, complied from: http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/outbreaks/2014-west-africa/

DoD Helps Fight Ebola in Liberia. (2014) U.S. Department of Defense. March 9 2015, complied from: http://www.defense.gov/home/features/2014/1014_ebola/

U.S. Troops Joint Ebola Fight (October 10, 2014). YouTube. March 9 2015, complied from:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agyyXsJmv9w