EBOLA

In 2014, there was an Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone with thousands of deaths. This crisis started in the rural area or the provinces down to the capital city Freetown. This devastated the country to the point of having houses quarantined because entire families or whole yards were infected with the Ebola virus disease (EVD). Instead of graves, trenches were built to bury the dead (Friden, & Damon, 2015). Agencies such as the United Nations (UN), World Health Association (WHO), Center of Disease and Prevention (CDC) was there along with the health personnel in the country to helped during this crisis. There is no treatment for the Ebola virus, so management medication was administered to the very ill while researchers and scientists were doing their research. There were fluids and antibiotics to manage the different infections and symptoms that appeared. After two years and four thousand deaths from the Ebola virus disease Sierra Leone was declared Ebola free. Medication is needed for prevention of the disease.