Ebola: Re-emerging Black Plague?

Ebola: Re-emerging Black Plague?

Back in History:

It was October 1347,

instead of merchandise of

silk and cotton

from Asia of 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,

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-

they told the world-five Ebola

species discovered.

Zairean Ebola virus-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,

but turned to political and

economic gains 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,

Ebola-whenever on

pestilential throne-

it shuts 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 Ebola sneezes,

man-wherever is catches cold.

Ebola-the cruel and tormentor-

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-

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, cancer,

diabetes, cardiovascular

diseases, and Alzheimer.

Because the world has

more than enough problems

in hand to deal  WITH.