Ebola: The Re-emerging Black Plague?

Ebola: the Re-emerging Black Plague?

Back in History:

 

It was October 1347,

instead of merchandise of silk and cotton

from Asia and Black Sea region,

twelve Genoese merchant ships delivered

undesirable cargoes of corpses;

undelectable gift  and present

at Italian port of Sicily,

in the  city of Messina.

 

 

A gift that turned a curse-

a pandemic disease of

international dimension;

a bubonic disease of groin,

a pneumonic disease of lung, and

more so, a flea and rodent

carrying disease,

which ravaged Europe,

destroyed Asia, and decimated Africa.

 

 

Within ten years down the road,

Europe had lost about hundred million

souls of its own;

a loss that took Europe

another 150 years to recover.

 

Today in History:

 

About forty years ago,

at Nzara, Sudan and

Yambuku, Congo at

Ebola River tributary in Africa-

we were told, five Ebola species

were discovered.

 

Zaire ebolavirus-one of the

quintet viral carrying diseases

the most dangerous is  

like the 14^th-century-bacillus-

Yersina-Pestis-the carrier-agent of

Black Plague.

  

From then on,

Ebola-a-death-dealing-virus

has created a notorious personality,

personality of affliction-

turned to both political and

economic issues around world capitals;

by international bloodsuckers:

money before common good-

pharmaceutical industrial complex.

 

 

Ebola a thread-like-viral-infection,

whenever in action, it can bring

a nation on its knees;

shut down a government,

makes ships stand-still at

deep sea,

crash-land jumbo-jets,

de-rails a thousand-coach-train.

Ebola, once mentioned

man becomes fearful, 

whenever it sneezes,

man-anywhere he is

catches cold.

Ebola-the cruel and tormentor-

its presence leaves nothing good,

but trail of woes, anguish,

cry, and pain-

a bitter pill that leaves sour

taste in mouth for a long

time to come.

 

 

Mankind and the Future of

Ebola:

 

Ebola-the double-stranded

Ribonucleic Acid (RNA);

a monster that turns all

scientific solutions to naught,

a giant that makes

scientists look like Lilliputians.

 

 

Ebola fear by all,

but hated by everyone-

is now on global rampage;

it carries no passport-

freely, it enters country of choice.

Ebola pays no fare,

yet, it rides on public transport-

anytime, anywhere, any day.

Is Ebola the modern day

equivalent of Pandora of

Greek mythology-

whose disobedience resulted

in evils  escaping from-

do-not-open-box in her care?

 

Or is EBOLA-the new found acronym-

Everything, But Our Life At

risk,

because of man’s moral

decadence, permissiveness

and lust?  

 

Whichever way, pray

Ebola without cure has

not come to stay,

even as Ebola made it on

list of seven world deadliest

diseases;

pray,  Ebola should not  join

the league of: AIDS, diabetes, cancer,

cardiovascular diseases, and

Alzheimer.

 

 

Because the world has

more than enough problems

in hand to deal  WITH.

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