South Africa is, according to Google Maps, approximately 5500 miles from Monrovia, Liberia. If you were to drive straight from Fairbanks, Alaska to Mexico City, you would not drive even 5000 miles.
South Africa has been Ebola free of the 2014 outbreak.
Since the outbreak of the disease in March 2014, South Africa and its neighbours have no confirmed cases of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD), according to the South African Department of Health.
Up until 12 October, there have been 8,997 confirmed, probable, and suspected cases of Ebola in Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Spain and the United States. A total of 4493 people have died from the disease.
But even armed with these facts, the Stokes County School board
has voted to keep the Vice Principle on leave when she returns from a two week mission trip in South Africa for 21 days.
The assistant principal at Chestnut Grove Middle School is in South Africa for two weeks. Parents and school board members are worried about the possibility of Ebola.
“No, I do not think she should have gone on that trip. I think it was a bad mistake, an unwise choice,” explains Amos Elvis, who has family at Chestnut Grove Middle School.
School board members have been discussing the issue with their attorneys and the health department. On Monday, the school board met behind closed doors for nearly two hours and decided the employee won’t be allowed to return to school for 21 days.
BTW , if you study map projections and their biases,
you will know the old traditional Mercator projection shows Africa and Greenland to be the relatively same size. I don't know if the school district used these bias maps, but if they do- they need to throw them out, NOW!
Perhaps Stokes Country needs to start using a South up orientated map projection.
Oh no Africa--be very afraid. It doesn't matter what part of Africa- just be afraid.
Ebola, Ebola, Ebola.......
Shouldn't they voted to seclude people arriving from Texas instead?