WASHINGTON —

Inside the world’s worst Ebola outbreak

Rising concern over a possible global outbreak of Ebola, especially in the wake of the new cases in Spain and the U.S., is putting investors on edge and has begun affecting the global economy.

The disease will likely prove a long-term drag on the African economy. Ebola’s two-year financial impact could reach $32.6 billion by the end of 2015 in West Africa alone, World Bank President Jim Yong Kim said Thursday.

Expectations that global travel will slow sent airline stocks down in the U.S. market Monday. The government has begun screening travelers from West Africa at major airports.

“In my 30 years in public health, the only thing that has been like this is AIDS,” said Thomas Frieden, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, at a World Bank conference.

News broke Sunday that a nurse at a Texas hospital contracted Ebola from a Liberian man who died there. She was the second patient to catch the disease outside West Africa, after a Spanish nurse who treated sick missionaries in Madrid.

A United Nations worker transported from Liberia to Leipzig in eastern Germany also died there Tuesday, according to German media.

World Health Organization Assistant Director-General Bruce Aylward told reporters Tuesday that 5,000 to 10,000 people could be catching the deadly disease every week by the start of December. Currently, about 1,000 new cases of Ebola emerge each week.

Aylward also revealed the latest numbers: an estimated 8,914 cases and a death toll of 4,447.

But the actual figures could be much higher. The CDC sees the total number of cases possibly swelling to as many as 1.4 million by January.

Although developed countries are sending more aid to help contain Ebola, many of the affected West African nations lack the capability to use it. Protective gear and other medical equipment sent from the U.S. apparently sat at a Sierra Leone port since August, according to The New York Times.

Some also warn that neighboring countries that have not officially reported any Ebola cases in fact already have patients. Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation, has many direct flights to and from the U.S., Europe and Asia. There are concerns that the disease could slip under the radar in these countries and spread to the rest of the world.

So unfortunately this maybe the case but that should also make our government in America to take  harder and stricter actions in rules and regulations on people entering the U.S. being checked from countries with the risk or history of having diseases that could be carried in this country for if we had these already in place this Ebola wouldn’t be at the level is in America .  We are lucky in America with less than 5 cases in America of Ebola this past year and presently now just 2 RN’s  with a active Ebola diagnosis that we are aware of in America.  We need to help America contain this disease and prevent further spreads  of Eboli in the country.

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