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Ebola

The consequences of the disease are far reaching, as the Republic of Congo is still a fledgling country recovering from civil war (as Zaire) and in fighting in the government.
             The Republic of Congo is a country in debt. The country had already defaulted on a loan from the African Development Bank. Owing the bank 186 million dollars. The country is also indebted to the French Developmental agency in the amount of 744 million dollars. The battle against Ebola is an expensive undertaking because of the highly contagious nature of the disease and the high fatality rate of the disease. Recently Congo received a grant of 500,000 dollars to help finance the epidemiological control of the Ebola Virus from the African developmental Bank, which Congo is now repaying. Is this enough? The disease strikes in remote areas of the country where proper health facilities are practically non-existent. The people who are affected by this disease are usually poverty stricken. The total amount of grants from African Developmental bank received by Congo in order to battle the disease is 1.22 million US dollars.
             As Ebola is a zoonosis it usually originates in the animal population. This is of significant import to the already dwindling population of Apes in the forests and reserves in the surrounding area. Particularly the Minkebe forest in neighboring Gabon, another West African country in which Ebola outbreaks have occurred, and the Lossi Sanctuary and the surrounding area. The ape population already ravaged by poaching and other illegal activity is now on the brink of extinction for many species. The mountain gorilla population has dropped below seven hundred and the low land population of ninety four thousand has been halved. If the current trend does not change experts think that the Orangutan population will no longer exist in ten years. The apes are very closely linked to humans and therefore can give some hint as to human evolution (if you are a supporter of the evolution theory).


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4. The 2014 Ebola Epidemic

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