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he media including The Jakarta Post have published various articles about the threat of Ebola.

Apparently the Indonesian government especially the Health Ministry has taken no steps to keep this extremely dangerous disease from Indonesia'€™s shores although the media reported that one individual in Medan, who returned from Nigeria, is thought to have recently died from Ebola.

The US and many European countries have already taken measures to prohibit African airlines using European airports and passengers arriving from Africa on European airlines, are undergoing medical examinations once they reach Europe. Those who show symptoms of Ebola are immediately sent back or hospitalized.

Please note that medical staff, which includes doctors and nurses who have assisted in treating Ebola patients in the US and Spain, have contracted this disease and have perished also.

It is necessary to pay attention to the fact that there is no medicine yet to treat this deadly disease.

If the Indonesian government and those of other Asian nations do not take measures to protect their respective countries from the threat of Ebola, this may decimate the Asian population and then family planning measures will automatically become redundant. Should this be a blessing?

Lynne van deer Zee-Boehme
Bogor, West Java