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4 BOCNEWS.COMJULY 2015 Be not overcome of evil but overcome evil with good. Romans 1221 There are times in this world when catastrophic events with much suffering involved bring out the best and most loving and humanitarian acts we may have seen. My mind brings up memories of when I was a missionary in Ethiopia 1984-1987. There was a famine in that land and according to estimates later about 1 million people died. I find myself still haunted by mental images of the many starving children and adults I took care of giving them food clothing blankets and medicine. After going through that experience I was never the same. If there are any good memories I remember how many people worked together to help the famine victims. I worked side by side with people from all over the world. Organizations such as the Catholic Relief Services World Vision the International Red Cross Oxfam the Seventh-day Adventist Church my church Doctors Without Borders Africare and many others worked together to help. I in fact received supplies from many humanitarian groups abroad that I used to help those who came to my clinic and feeding center. It did not come without risk as I myself had a near death experience with hepatitis. Two wonderful things happened. Human beings came together to aid those in need and because of this many lives were saved. I thank God I survived and lived to try to help many in my own country. When we want to we can save lives instead of taking them in violence and warfare. Just recently the worlds attention was again focused on Africa especially the west-African coun- tries Liberia Guinea and Sierra Leone but many others were effected Our attention was riveted by a deadly and seeming relentless disease which has no cure. There is no magic bullet vaccine or antibiotic for this deadly infection we have come to know as Ebola. This viral dis- ease is caused by a virus that is spread by direct contact with blood and body fluids. Direct contact through broken skin or mucous membranes such as those in the mouth nose and eyes allows spread. The disease symptoms may start 2 days to three weeks after contact. Victims have vomiting diar- rhea rash fever and bleed- ing from internal and external sources. Treatment involves identification of those infected isolation and intensive treat- ment if possible with IV or oral fluids as those who die mostly die from massive loss of body fluids and bleeding. The body has to fight off the infections while what is called supportive care is give. Those who care for victims must wear head-to-toe protective clothing to keep from getting infected. Those brave and caring enough can save lives although some health care workers have paid the ultimate price trying to help. The one fortunate thing is that the disease is not spread by air. If this were not the case this disease could quickly become a worldwide conflagration. As it was this last outbreak between 2014 and 2015 killed over 11000 people and caused worldwide concern. Many humanitarian organi- zations too many to name all such as ADRA the Adventist Relief and Development Agency Africare Catholic Relief Services Doctors Without Borders Partners in Health Project C.U.R.E. Samaritans Purse Save the Children UNICEF The Centers for Disease Control and PreventionCDC and the World Health Organization. This is just a partial list. Reading about this makes me think that we humans are capable of doing good to help many people in need. Why do we not do more to help to help those in need and when I say this it is the missionary in me speaking. Once a missionary always a missionary. Why does it take a crisis to bring out the best in humanity Just think if our focus was saving lives and relieving suffering instead of warfare political strife blood shed and getting even. The most important lesson we can learn is that we can do the most good by coming together to save lives. This lesson is obscured by the constant focus of the media on acts of violence. We can be violent but by Gods grace we can do good as well. Just think how transformed this world would be if we did this for as many people as we can. Just remember that many were willing to put their lives on the line to help. That is one lesson we can learn from the Ebola outbreak. Here is another important lesson and that is that we need to do as much as we can to educate people how to avoid disease stay healthy. Knowledge is power and we can empower people by our teaching. I really believe the Ebola outbreak would have been worse without the dissemination of knowledge about the disease. We can do the same thing helping people with all of the various acute and chronic diseases we are impacted by such as diabe- tes hypertension and a host of others. The more we educate the more we can help people. My hope and prayer is that we can work together to be in the mode of collaborating to save lives and educating people to save their own lives Lessons Learned fromThe Ebola Outbreak Dr. Conner By Byron E. Conner M.D. HEALTH The one fortunate thing is that the disease is not spread by air. If this were not the case this disease could quickly become a worldwide conflagration. As it was this last outbreak between 2014 and 2015 killed over 11000 people and caused worldwide concern. 1. MARVIN SAPP - YOU SHALL LIVE 2. RICHARD SMALLWOOD - ANTHOLOGY 3. LONNIE HUNTER - GET IT DONE 4. PATRICK HOLLIS - NEW SEASON 5. ANHONY BROWN - EVERYDAY JESUS 6. LEE WILLIAMS - MEMPHIS GOSPEL LIVE 7. TRENT VON LEE - I AM A PRAISER 8. CASEY J - THE TRUTH 9. MARLON LOCK - GOOD SEED PROJECT 10. J. MOSS - GROWN FOLKS GOSPEL