Economic Impact
Ebola
Ebola continues to have an impact on Africa in many ways. Economically speaking, many businesses have lost revenue because of the amount of deaths taking place due to ebola. This is mainly affecting places like Zaire and Sudan where a lot of the deaths are happening. Zaire and Sudan are two countries in Africa that are not very wealthy and cannot support diagnosed cases. Some hospitals cannot afford to have sanitized tools which becomes a problem when working with ebola patients because any bodily fluid passed from person to person can spread the disease. This makes it easy for healthcare and lab workers to catch the disease since they are handling ebola diagnosed fluids. Once someone is diagnosed, the disease kills quickly and there is no cure, most likely causing death of some doctors.
Transporting goods overseas becomes risky with the ebola epidemic. People traveling overseas, whether they know they have ebola or not, can easily pass it to other locations. Because ebola affects some organisms, it can be spread through the transportations of goods overseas by creatures in the water. Monkeys are the main animal that ebola is targeting. As a result, the price of researching monkeys has gone up as well as the price to import monkeys to different countries. In places like Kibaale and Kabarole, the government has ordered a shutdown on markets until the ebola outbreak is controlled. If there is any way to prevent this disease from spreading, there will be precautions taken.
Transporting goods overseas becomes risky with the ebola epidemic. People traveling overseas, whether they know they have ebola or not, can easily pass it to other locations. Because ebola affects some organisms, it can be spread through the transportations of goods overseas by creatures in the water. Monkeys are the main animal that ebola is targeting. As a result, the price of researching monkeys has gone up as well as the price to import monkeys to different countries. In places like Kibaale and Kabarole, the government has ordered a shutdown on markets until the ebola outbreak is controlled. If there is any way to prevent this disease from spreading, there will be precautions taken.
Yellow Fever
The economy of African countries become greatly affected as a result of the yellow fever, similar to ebola. Unlike ebola though, yellow fever can be treated by receiving vaccinations. The vaccinations are not expensive, but because parts of Africa are not as wealthy, money can be scarce. Because of poor economy in areas of Africa, countries are at a greater impact of the yellow fever as compared to others. To limit cases of yellow fever, businesses have launched emergency vaccination campaigns and made citizens aware of proper procedure to take to limit yellow fever. This has seemed to work and in countries like Guinea, Liberia, Senegal and Sierra, cases of yellow fever have gone down.