Hello Bunmi, you did well by calling attention to a real threat to the wellbeing of a regional segment of humanity, namely the West African region. You have done well by calling attention to this environmental threat and its international tentacles.To be meaningful, scholarship must also involve praxis--that is, geared towards improvement of the human condition; otherwise, it becomes scholarship for the mere sake of it--a waste of everyone's time--that ends up alienating the larger society and being viewed as an elephant undertaking.
I have always wondered about how these types of mega infectious diseases (with a historic and rather surprising exception of Covid-19) often tend to be linked to an African locale as a starting point. Note, however, that West Africa is not the only region where Ebola has manifested itself in recent times. As we speak, Uganda in East Africa is battling with it. An outbreak has also been reported in the Central African country of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Treating Africa as a dumping ground or an experimental lab, a guinea pig, is an age-old phenomenon often made possible by lax or ineffective governmental vigilance or societal disequilibrium which creates a field-day for infiltrators and exploiters who do not mean well. Societal instability and perennial internal discord create fertile ground for all manner of internal and external mischief. This is one of the many reasons that social tranquility, a harmonious national co-existence and political stability are essential.
On Fri, Nov 4, 2022 at 8:52 AM Bunmi fatoye-matory <bunmifm@gmail.com> wrote:
--Dear Friends,I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but I've always had my suspicions about the Ebola West Africa outbreak. I read in the New York Times back then that Tulane University scientists and the U.S. Dept of Defense were conducting Ebola research in our region, which had never had an Ebola outbreak. The Tulane folks were doing something related to pediatrics. One of the first victims of Ebola was a little boy in Liberia or Sierra Leone who gave it to his grandmother. I hope our scientists, journalists and government officials would look more into this. Here is a link to this story.
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Sincerely,
Victor O. Okafor, Ph.D.
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Eastern Michigan University
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