Joseph Alton - The Ebola Survival Handbook

And, perhaps most significantly:

• “Why are so few of us raising our voices—screaming at the top of our lungs—demanding that our government begin implementing common-sense epidemiological safeguards against Ebola unnecessarily infecting more Americans?”

The United States, more than any other country, has the potential to rise to the challenge of containing this epidemic and helping those in need. We must expand our efforts in West Africa and remain the force of good for the world that we have traditionally been.

By the same token, the United States can’t ignore the public health and safety of its citizens. Americans depend on government to protect the populace in times of trouble. We have to look at the Ebola crisis in terms of humanitarian considerations, but also in terms of self-preservation. That means that there may be tough decisions ahead.

I hope that the reader of this book never has to resort to the strategies that I’ve outlined here. I prefer to hope for the best, while preparing for the worst. In this way, we can all succeed, even if everything else fails.

NOW YOU KNOW…

A heckuva lot about Ebola. I hope that, for your family, it will be, in the distant future, just a number of interesting facts you learned a long time ago.

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention

http://www.cdc.gov/

The World Health Organization

http://www.who.int/en/

The National Institutes of Health

http://www.nih.gov/

The American Medical Association

http://www.ama-assn.org/ama

The New England Journal of Medicine

http://www.nejm.org/

The American Red Cross

http://www.redcross.org/

Doctors Without Borders

http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/

US Department of Health and Human Services Disaster Information Management Resource Center

http://sis.nlm.nih.gov/dimrc/Ebola_2014.html

Mayo Clinic

http://www.mayoclinic.org/

Joseph Alton, MD is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons and the American College of OB/GYN and the founder of the survival website DoomandBloom.net. Dr. Alton is the author of The Survival Medicine Handbook and is one of the most popular speakers in the country on crisis medicine. He has been featured in The New York Times , Fortune magazine, The Miami Herald , Tulsa World , Small Business Trendsetters , Mother Jones , and on various ABC, CBS, and Fox affiliates. Dr. Alton is a popular medical keynote speaker at survival and preparedness events throughout the country, and has been at the forefront of advising citizens on how to understand and survive the Ebola crisis.

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