In
an attempt to control the spread of Ebola infected patients are quarantined and
urged to avoid human to human contact at all costs. Family members of infected patients should not touch the person, share drinking cups, or clean up any bodily fluids such as vomit, urine, or diarrhea. As the Black Plague
became increasingly uncontrollable people in early modern Europe began exiling
anyone infected, essentially identical to the concept of quarantining.
Quarantining and taking infected patients away from
their villages to clinics is currently putting a strain on families and
friends. Kids are being left without parents, parents without kids; and
even when patients survive and recover, neighbors and friends treat them
differently upon returning home.
The Center for Disease Control has recorded the following recent statistics:
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